Ways to Tie Trees 5 cm 120 pages with

5 cm 120 pages with approx

in the intimacy of their home in Graz but also during their travels abroad — to Germany

the work cultivates a vocabulary of techniques that attend to the process of picture-making and the emotions and ethics of looking at other creatures

Controversial then for its use of colour and refusal to follow the clichéd tropes of photojournalism

a facial hair feature that has adorned the faces of men (and some women) throughout history

Ways to Tie Trees 5 cm 120 pages withBetween August and December 2015, Woong Soak Teng explored the man made garden city of Singapore and made portraits of its staked trees. As in many cities around the world, here trees are uprooted and relocated to conform to a controlled cityscape determined by urban planning. As part of an attempt to construct productive and aesthetic living environments for ourselves, nature has long since been subjected to manipulation at the mercy of human hands.