Thank you Uniqlo for picking me as one of the artists for your Fall For Autumn project, present in the Singapore Flagship store at Orchard Central. We’ve got a set of postcards by 4 photographers and an in-store postal service, along with decorative lightboxes with quotes about autumn. “As a photographer, I love it when the light casts a soft glow on the things arounds us, creating shadows and dimensions. It reminds me of the passing of time, which we cannot stop, and that for everything we do, the forces of nature are much bigger than us.” FALL FOR AUTUMN — UNIQLO was origin ..read more

Solving the confusion Let me solve some confusion and misconceptions between the X-E3 and other Fujifilm X-series cameras. The way Fujifilm has cleverly conceived its X-series, its latest mirrorless cameras are all fitted with the same CMOS III X-Trans sensor. More precisely, the Fujifilm X-Pro2, X-T2, X-T20 and X-E3 all have the same APS-C “X-Trans CMOS III” sensor, on 24M effective pixels. The different cameras have a different physical body but the same intelligence. Think of it this way, they are a range of cameras who look different on the outside but are the same on the inside ..read more

Shot on Jpeg, Fujifilm X-E3, XF16mm 1.4 R WR, ISO 5000, 1/50sec, F2Using X-E3 for Night Photography in Low-light for the Hungry Ghost Festival Getai （歌台) literally means “Song Stage”, set up to entertain the ghosts. They are unique to Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and parts of Indonesia, emerging in Singapore during the Japanese Occupation in the 1940s. Today the performances, along with dinner feasts, auctions of lanterns, whisky, and massive burning of hell money and joss sticks, are supported by donations from businessmen who believe monetary contributions for these festivitie ..read more

https://medium.com/media/0cc48d7e9d524bb7bc2e479f9c98218c/hrefNostalgia, childhood and 80s Singapore The back story of “Ah Ma, I”, a short Singapore story about a photographer’s notes to her to my grandmother — using Fujifilm GFX, Fujifilm X-T2 When I was a child, I didn’t like my grandmother. She spoke only the Hokkien dialect making communication a one-way street. And I complained she smelled weird, refusing to go near her, my mother recalled. You see, Ah Ma hardly washed her hair. She’s grown it since she was born (until about 80 when she became too weak to care for herself, her hair h ..read more

I tried to shoot a feeling today — the mood that’s been lingering around all week, an ambiguous deep pensiveness brought on by the interactions with somewhat outcasts members of society and also by my neighbour’s sudden death. It lead me to ponder my own fortunate existence, at the same time fleeting, struggling and unstruggling, a certain bittersweet that cannot be felt without an appreciation of the beauties of life. On approaching the shoot… the mind strives to empty itself to be void of words, lest photography gets defined by the spoken language and starts to take on a rigid form ..read more

This question gets asked very often, so I got my hands on somebody else’s GFX for oomph factor comparison, and here is the answer. How light is the X-T20, and how heavy is the GFX? The former weighs like a mango, the latter weighs like a watermelon (or a say.. a Nikon D800, with a 24–70mm attached. Got it? Fujifilm GFX with Fujinon 32–64mm GF lens VS X-T20 with XF23mm F2. How small is the X-T20? … How big is the GFX? was originally published in Tinyhumanmind on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story ..read more

Here are the links to my work. If you have a project in mind or would like to drop me a message, please feel free to write to hello@mindytan.com I would love to hear from you! Documentary photography website Wedding photography website Instagram @tinyhumanmind (street and documentary photography) Instagram @mindytanphotos (weddings and lifestyle) Facebook Facebook for work Contact & Portfolio was originally published in Tinyhumanmind on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story ..read more

About Mindy Tan Mindy Tan is a photographer adept at capturing people. Disconcerted by an Asia that is quickly forsaking its traditions for a modernity which leaves more people on the lower side of equal, she finds herself compelled to photograph ordinary people. She looks into a human psyche caught between split-seconds of emotional revelations and harsh truths. Her photographs are straight-forward, sometimes confrontational. Mindy began her career as a newspaper journalist. She won the Society of Publishers Asia (SOPA) award for excellence in Human Rights Reporting in 2007, before ..read more

https://medium.com/media/aa6becbfd04db0baa66fb18ea90e78aa/hrefSNAP-SNAP-GO, Kyoto! — my X-T20 technique This is the way I shoot with the X-T20. It’s so Lit! Warning: the touch-screen is addictive. Arriving in Kyoto, I am holding onto Fujifilm’s X-T20 pre-production unit #48. I’ve had it for 3 months now and to be honest, it competes for attention with the other cameras in my dry-box, all of them waiting for their turns to come out and play. Mostly in a hurry, I would grab the Fujifilm X70 for daily use and for its familiarity. Only when I started packing for a work-holiday to Japan that it occ ..read more

I was one of the 100 photographers around the world to externally receive a pre-production sample of the Fujifilm X-T2 for a dry run before its launch. Straight out of shipment from Japan, a pre-production sample of the Fujifilm XT2. It arrives in May, black tape intact until its announcement July. In a mere span of 2 months, this little metal piece with its model and brand concealed under black tape, has travelled with me from Singapore to Beijing, Hong Kong and Malaysia. It’s been bashed up on the streets, it’s fallen (accidentally, once), and attracted too many a curious onlooker who ..read more