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Faces of hard truths
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 19/11/2014
» Haryatin lost her sight in Saudi Arabia. She first left Indonesia in 1998 to work as domestic help. Her first employer was kind, the second miserly and the third committed horrendous physical acts of violence against her, leaving her disabled — all of this she told journalist Karen Emmons, who has been working with photographer Steve McCurry on a project entitled "No One Should Work This Way", documenting and exposing the abuse migrant domestic workers face across Asia and the Middle East.
More than words
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 10/11/2014
» In July, the National Library Board of Singapore pulled two books from the children's books shelves. One of them And Tango Makes Three is based on a true story about two male Chinstrap penguins raising a chick in Central Park Zoo. The other, The White Swan Express, mentions a lesbian couple.
War and peace
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 25/08/2014
» In what Susan Sontag would refer to as the democratisation of the human experience through photography, the exhibition "Something To Talk About" presents moments in the Deep South that have largely been overlooked by news media — moments of peace.