About Singapore Snaps
It’s hard to remember a time without the Phone Camera and Digital SLR. We have so many digital photos at our fingertips that we forget all the old printed photos we still have at home, stuffed in drawers and slowly fading. Digitising your old photos preserves them for future generations and makes it easier for you to share them with friends and family.
Singapore Snaps is a relational art project that focuses on the public’s collective memories of Singapore.
We want to preserve your memories by providing free digitised copies of your old printed photos. Using selected photographs, we create animation works according to themes commonly found within the archive. These works will be screened as part of the events for Singapore’s 50th anniversary of independence in 2015.
Join us on our journey to preserve memories through the process of digitising, and to collect stories from the photo Contributors, in turn allowing our project to uncover the thread that weaves the unseen fabric of themes that hold us together, as an individual and as a unit of society, through time.
Planning
Besides the national and participating public libraries mentioned above, the project works with partners who would like to connect with, and actively engage the public community through this project. We also encourage volunteers from educational institutions, as well as organisations that see synergy with our objectives, to join us in this relational art project that celebrates the personal histories and memories of people living in Singapore.
You can view the participating schools and groups here and supporting people here.
Execution
For the duration of May until August 2014, we set up collection booths at the respective national and public libraries to collect old printed photographs contributed by the public. Most of the time, we introduce the project to visitors, and answer all inquiries from curious passersby.
All submitted photographed are packed and delivered personally to our professional scanning studio for digitising. The process is documented in this post. Once scanning completes, the team returns the original photographs and albums to the contributor, together with a free personalised DVD containing the digitised photographs. The photo-collection has since ended on 27 July 2014.
We are currently in the process of categorising all the digital photographs, some of which will then be selected to be included in the production of the animations scheduled to be completed early 2015.
Locations
Photo-collection has ended in 2014. If you have a photo and story to share, please feel free to send them to hello@tanweikeong.com
14 May – 1 June
Toa Payoh Public Library, Level 2.
Wednesdays – Sundays | 12pm – 7pm
21 May – 1 June, 11 – 29 June, 9 – 27 July
Central National Library
Wednesdays – Sundays | 12pm – 7pm
11 June – 29 June
Bukit Merah Public Library, Level 1.
Wednesdays – Sundays | 12pm – 7pm
9 July – 27 July
Geylang East Public Library, Level 2.
Wednesdays – Sundays | 12pm – 7pm