Highlights of the Singapore International Photography Festival

Until Oct 28
This local lens wizard focuses on capturing big cities like ours. Nguan’s snapshots illustrate Singapore as an iconic dreamscape in a palette of pastel hues.

Until Dec 9
The Tokyo native showcases the universal tales of love and death through a journalistic style known as shishashin or ‘I photography’. His 131 photographs are dedicated to his late wife, displaying their early days up till her passing.

Until Oct 17
Flying out of the UK is documentarian Mark Neville and five of his photography projects. The story-like visuals, moving images and detailed documents explore class identity, play spaces and more.

Until Oct 27
Peer through the lens of three prominent Japanese photographers at different stages of their creative journeys. Each artist takes on unique strategies to reflect themselves.

Oct 19-Jan 6
Drawn to the faces of the outcasts, this Chinese shutterbug visited 400 orphans from various walks of life for a decade. The exhibition documents the growth and development of these orphans.

Until Oct 17
When it comes to still life photography, this Canadian artist has the Midas touch. The inanimate objects snapped are presented the same way still art is painted onto canvas, showcasing tranquility of life sans human presence.

Until Oct 17
Based on a two-month residency programme in Yunnan, China, the display demonstrates three local photographers’ explorations of everything from the city’s urbanscape to the cultures and traditions of ethnic minorities.