What is Beauty? When the amazing story-telling guru former Radio DJ Petrina Kow approached me to ask if I would be open to expressing my perception of beauty through my camera lens for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018, I knew immediately that I wanted to capture beauty in its rawest state. To embrace individuality, authenticity, and vulnerability. To honour each woman’s honesty and truth, and to create portraits not around perfect bodies, but around perfect souls. To honour the beautifully imperfect individual in all of us.
I had the honour of sitting with a bunch of inspiring women from different walks of life, listening to their stories, and working with each of them to create some portraits. I dont think any single image can fully capture one’s beauty, but I’m honoured to have had a moment with each woman, to capture a glimpse of that rawness. Entirely untouched, unedited, real. That, to me, is beauty in its best form.
Thank you, Petrina Kow and the team at M1 Singapore Fringe Festival for believing in my vision, and to the fabulous women Anita G Kapoor, Arianna Pozzuoli De Bo Rah Emmanuel, Frances Lee, Oniatta Effendi and Dr Uma Rajan for being so true.
Now you can partake in their stories, and soak up their stories of what they each perceive as beautiful, what life experiences shaped them, What makes them glow. Do gather your fellow beauties, and I hope you will join us next weekend.
Petrina Kow (Singapore) – Walking in Beauty
25—27 January 2018, 8pm
Tickets on sale via SISTIC
Esplanade Recital Studio Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay
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Photography by The Studiokel Collection by Kelly Fan
#studiokelportraits
Heaps of gratitude to Petrina Kow NOVU Medical Aesthetic Clinic @Jennifer Loh @Jyue huey The Make Up Room Elliot’s Thumb Studio and everyone else who made this project beyond joy to work together with.
– Cant wait to round up my beauty tribe Huiting Koh Melissa Tan Li Wen Tan Rachel Lim Crystin CL Franci He Joyce Koh next week! Hannah Bonnet you will be sorely missed.
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