lance.lee
02-12-2009, 11:18 PM
Where: Vivocity
When: 13 - 22 Feb 2009
Prints will be on sale and money raised will go towards building about 50 houses for tsunami victims
Story by Gwendolyn Ng, Straits Times pg B5 on 12 Feb
Photographer Alex Soh can still recall the ache he felt as he watched a sack of rice fall off a truck in a Sri Lankan village and a group of boys scramble to scoop up the grains as rain pelted down.
Batticaloa village was just one of many that had been devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Yet, more than five years on, residents are still struggling to rebuild their lives.
Mr Soh, 36, was there six months ago with The Rice Project, an initiative he started with his photographer friend Triston Yeo, also 36.
Its aim is to document the lives of tsunami victims, even though the disaster has faded from international headlines.
The ambitious undertaking began with him organising a photography competition requiring participants to submit a photo essay on the theme of "Living"
Instead of cameras or cash, the prize was a 10-day photo exhibition to Sri Lanka last August to distribute rice and document the lives of people in Trincomalee and Batticaloa. Two of the worst-hut towns on the east coast.
When: 13 - 22 Feb 2009
Prints will be on sale and money raised will go towards building about 50 houses for tsunami victims
Story by Gwendolyn Ng, Straits Times pg B5 on 12 Feb
Photographer Alex Soh can still recall the ache he felt as he watched a sack of rice fall off a truck in a Sri Lankan village and a group of boys scramble to scoop up the grains as rain pelted down.
Batticaloa village was just one of many that had been devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Yet, more than five years on, residents are still struggling to rebuild their lives.
Mr Soh, 36, was there six months ago with The Rice Project, an initiative he started with his photographer friend Triston Yeo, also 36.
Its aim is to document the lives of tsunami victims, even though the disaster has faded from international headlines.
The ambitious undertaking began with him organising a photography competition requiring participants to submit a photo essay on the theme of "Living"
Instead of cameras or cash, the prize was a 10-day photo exhibition to Sri Lanka last August to distribute rice and document the lives of people in Trincomalee and Batticaloa. Two of the worst-hut towns on the east coast.