It's amazing how we can capture moments and a slice of life with photographs. Day to night comes with changes of colours in the skies and the sun and moon switching places. These images give me an inspiration to take photographs to create a blend of an image that will show people the wonders of the world. I found Fong's photographs to be so beautifully spliced together and it is just a perfect way to showcase Singapore's beauty through images. The artist/photographer's photographs look so amazing that it just left me in awe viewing all of it. What makes it even more amazing is that the photographs were all taken in sunny Singapore.
Fong Qi Wei is an artist and photographer that “strives to make images which touches both the feeling part and the thinking part of your mind.” He wants to get your attention and hopefully engage you on a deeper level as you look at it for longer.
On his site he states,
“Photography is a medium that is famous for freezing time. The word snapshot suggests that a tiny slice of time is recorded for posterity… A photographic print is flat, and essentially is made of 2 dimensions: length and width. Yet through composition and lens focus we give a print depth… The best images are the ones which let you feel like you can step directly into the frame into a world which is on the other side.
But the print is still an instance. Most paintings and photographs are an instance of time. That’s not the way the world works. We experience a sequence of time, and that’s why a video is somehow more compelling than a freeze frame…
Photographic prints are great because they don’t need power to be displayed. They are more or less permanent. Videos are great because they record a sequence of time which shows reality almost like how we experience. Is it possible to combine the two? And not via long exposure photography where often details are lost from motion.
So I played around with the tools of digital photography and post processing to give you this series: Time is a dimension."
FONG QI WEI | fqwimages
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