12-AUG-2007
Sean Leong Siew Wah Summer
Summer will stare you in the face, and she won't blink.
Sometimes there is no necessary context except a blurred floor, a hint of grass, and diffused light, to convey a mood. Here Kharu is playful but frank, and Sean captured that moment when both emotions linked in her face.
12-AUG-2007
Margaret Lim Summer
A cute pixie, an impish moment. Summer makes you young, when you remember your youth you inevitably are drawn to the endless play day of a summer.
Maggie caught Kharu during her romp through the summer set and brought out the colors of her clothing to add spice to the image.
12-AUG-2007
Benjamin Balmoris Summer
She decided to drape herself over the railing-less balcony, like a Juliet untouched by tragedy as yet.
Benjamin catches Kharu relaxed.
12-AUG-2007
Benjamin Balmoris Autumn
The light changes when Summer leaves and Autumn falls to chill the world and bring reminders of mortality, loss, change.
Benjamin uses neutralized hues to portray the change of the season, working very well with the fern growing from the wall, catching Kharu in a pensive moment.
12-AUG-2007
Margaret Lim Autumn
Change, the chill of it, sometimes leaves you against a rough wall.
Maggie takes Kharu with a limited emotional perimeter--leaning against a rough wall, bracing herself against the light. The values add to the image, the dark behind her, the light illuminating her face, her hands, hinting of a readiness for the season of changes.
12-AUG-2007
Sean Leong Siew Wah Autumn
There, but not there. Inside, but without. Change can bring a state of constant conflict--an emotional tug of war that is mute but powerfully gripping.
The light works here, the muddy filtering of the window just giving a hint of Kharu's face and right hand. Sean catches her as she grips the outside of the window frame. A symbolic image, interpreting the flux of the season.
12-AUG-2007
Benjamin Balmoris Spring
Bright, hopeful, tender. The colors of spring and the change of light takes us skipping to another chance at being more alive than we previously felt.
Benjamin blends dark colors with a high key treatment to show the impressionistic spring: the season that makes us think we can be better, again.
12-AUG-2007
Margare Lim Spring
Youth, beauty, wish.
Spring is pink with life and green with energy, and it is beautiful and we gaze at it wistfully.
Maggie presses the shutter at a subtle moment of girlishness in Kharu, and catches the range of remembrances that spring affords those whose youth lives endlessly in the wishes of the heart.
12-AUG-2007
Sean Leong Siew Wah Spring
A dreamy and triumphant season, the one inspiring stories about swans and blossoms and songs with violins and flutes.
Sean experiments with foreground to create the dreamy frame around Kharu, and the image makes us a voyeur to her joy.
12-AUG-2007
Benjamin Balmoris Winter
There is beauty in sparseness. The stark white chill of winter makes warmth precious.
Benjamin combines a high key treatment with warm tones in Kharu's face to produce a contrast of what you feel and how you want to feel, in a season of restraint.
12 August 2007
E T Tan Winter
A harsh season evokes wishes of being in a soft, comfortable place.
E T Tan succeeds beautifully in bringing a tender warmth to this image with the gradiation and the framing. The contrast of the soft framing and the blue chill in Kharu's eyes bring a subtle power to this photograph.
12-AUG-2007
Margaret Lim Winter
Strength and vulnerability. Winter forces us to steel ourselves against impatience, but at the same time gives us a chance to withdraw from the outdoors and spend time with ourselves, a most vulnerable state of being.
We are blank but full.
Maggie caught that here.
