My work has been published today on the national paper, The Straits Times, on the cover story of the Life! section.

The story, “Sexy Singapore”, talks about Singaporeans becoming more open about nudity and sex.  The spotlight was on my client, Ronnie & Jaslyn Choh who, despite sharing an apartment with their parents, prominently displayed 6 nude photos at home.  The wonderful part was how everyone, including the parents, accepted the photos as works of art instead of some trashy taboo.

As their photographer, I feel grateful and proud.

The most difficult part of committing such a major part of my portfolio in nude photography, is that I can’t always show what I regard as my best work.  Obviously, this is based on a strict principle to protect my clients’ privacy.  It is therefore a wonderful blessing whenever clients allow me to display the photos in my portfolio.

They’re not the only ones, though.  To help the Straits Times’ reporter with the story, I contacted more clients who’ve just had their photos taken.  Every single one of them agreed to be interviewed and had their photos featured.  I must be on a roll.  It’s a shame they weren’t featured in the story, but I can’t tell you how thankful I am to them for putting so much faith in me.

Ronnie, Jaslyn and many clients remain my friends years after their photos were taken.  It’s an amazing feeling, something that money can’t buy.

I’ll arrange another session for those who were left out, I meant to keep the class really small. If anyone’s keen, please send me an email.

Here’s the thing: I wasn’t particularly keen on the topic.  Why does everyone believe that unique locations make unique photographs? Everyone thinks that photos are “normal” because they’re done in the same places – studio, botanical gardens, or some beach with standard poses.  Even photographers feel the same.  No wonder most wedding photos are boring.

Photographs are made by photographers.  Don’t blame the location.  If every photographer cares enough to use their imagination, every photo will be special, simply because every photographer is unique.

Anyway, we had great fun during the shoot.  The RazorTV crew were nice people, very sporting, and followed us right till the shoot ends.  So thank you, and my name is “Lim”, not “Kim”, so please change it in the video before I change my mind about you.

[Edit: The video now shows my name correctly]

I must mention that Michelle & Saiful didn’t request for any particularly special location.  They trusted me entirely, and left all decisions to me.  Thank you, I couldn’t have asked for more.

Here are the clips on RazorTV.  Michelle & Saiful’s night shoot is featured mainly in part 2, and in bits of part 1.

Part 1

Part 2

Some photos from the shoot:

on my first visit to a nearby food stall selling butterfly buns (sugar-coated dip-fried twin buns, my favourite snack):

“One butterfly bun”

“How many?”

“One”

2nd visit:

“One butterfly bun”

“How many?”

“One”

3rd visit:

“One butterfly bun”

“How many?”

“One”

4th visit:

“Butterfly bun, One”

(butterfly bun promptly delivered without question)