mattlock said:no, you need to send singaporeans overseas to learn from foreign countries and their photographers.
LittleWolf said:It won't help if they are so "kuai" after returning to Singapore that they again go with the flow. Many Singaporeans are handicapped by an environment that puts a premium on conformity and not standing out. (It seems most energy has been diverted to the safe way of standing out by scoring as many "A"s as possible in school.) But one has to stand out to be, well, outstanding.
mattlock said:I think that once you go overseas and hang out with overseas photographers you start to change your thinking about photography.
LittleWolf said:But not necessarily about authority.
mattlock said:anyway the people who go into photography and do well tend to have fallen out of the system in the first place.
Ditto, i 2nd thismattlock said:no, you need to send singaporeans overseas to learn from foreign countries and their photographers.
ortega said:Ditto, i 2nd this
sporean photogs need to get out of singapore to change our mindset.
but we also need foreign photogs to take pictures of singapore to let us view our homeland with foreign eyes.
Sion said:While we're on foreign talents, does Singapore need them in the field of photography?
ortega said:Ditto, i 2nd this
sporean photogs need to get out of singapore to change our mindset.
ortega said:but we also need foreign photogs to take pictures of singapore to let us view our homeland with foreign eyes.
Danntbt said:Nothing wrong with foreign talents if it can help develop the local standard....
singscott said:Of course we need foreign talent You know those with big () (), long legs, nice ass and pan asian or ang mo look:bsmilie: Oh do forget the jap:vhappy:
Stereobox said:why?
from conforming to a 'local' mindset, to conforming to a 'foreign' mindset? :bsmilie: