Beauty with a price


  • Photographer
    Teck Lim
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Lumina Pte Ltd
  • Date of Photograph
    2013 June

Singapore is a country well protected from natural disaster & calamities. The recent haze in June 2013, caused by forest fire from neighboring country, Indonesia, has made me realize how small and helpless we are when faced with something of this magnitude. I was drawn to these fleeting surrealistic seascape caused by the haze, which gives me a sense of calm. Beauty comes with a price tag, as all images were covered while wearing a N95 mask. The air condition at some point were considered hazardous & I’m thankful that it only occur for a short period of few days. I couldn’t have resisted going out there to capture this fleeting moments as a photographer.

Story

Singapore is a country well protected from natural disaster & calamities.
The recent haze in June 2013, caused by forest fire from neighboring country, Indonesia, has
made me realize how small and helpless we are when faced with something of this magnitude.

A series of pictures were documented during this man-made natural phenomenal not seen in Singapore before - under a different light.

Singapore is a tropical non-seasonal country, and weather all around is pretty much the same.
As a photographer, I marveled at the chance of capturing this somehow mysterious ‘new seascape’ caused by the haze. As I take a stroll along one of the more affected morning, clues from the seascape once so familiar started whispering to me.

A white piece of paper as if showing a sign of surrender, a weathered down door metaphorize no escape for the nature and other subtle hints haunt me during my walk. I asked myself, does it take something drastic of a high level, that only when it affects you, make you realize what impact mankind has on the environment.

I was drawn to these fleeting surrealistic seascape which gives me a sense of calm.
Beauty comes with a price tag, as all images were covered while wearing a N95 mask.
The air condition at some point were considered hazardous & I’m thankful that it only occur for a short period of few days. I couldn’t have resisted going out there to capture this fleeting moments as a photographer.

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