Sim Chi Yin

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Sim Chi Yin (born 1978) is a Singaporean photographer, based between Beijing, China,[1][2] and London. She works as a documentary photographer and artist who pursues self-directed projects in Asia and is "interested in history, memory, and migration and its consequences".[1][3] As well as photography she uses film, sound, text and archival material.[1]

The Long Road Home: Journeys Of Indonesian Migrant Workers was published in 2011. Sim is a nominee member of Magnum Photos.

She has been awarded a Magnum Foundation Social Justice and Photography fellowship and the Chris Hondros Award.

Life and work[]

Sim was born in Singapore. She read history and international relations at the London School of Economics on a scholarship.[2]

She worked as a print journalist and foreign correspondent at The Straits Times for nine years.[4][5] In 2010 she quit to work full time as a photographer.[4][5] Within four years she was working as a photojournalist, getting regular assignments from The New York Times.[5]

Her first major work was "The Rat Tribe", about blue-collar workers in Beijing.[2][6] It has been published widely[6] and was shown at Rencontres d'Arles in 2012.[2]

Sim spent four years photographing Chinese gold miners living with the occupational lung disease silicosis, published in the photo essay "Dying To Breathe",[7][8] much of it about He Quangui, also the subject of a short film.[2][6]

She was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer in 2017 to make work about its winner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.[9][10] Her photographs of similarities in landscapes related to nuclear weapons, both in the USA and along the China-North Korea border, were exhibited at the Nobel Peace Center museum in Oslo, Norway.[2]

In 2014 she became an interim member of VII Photo Agency,[5][11][12] a full member in 2016[6] then left in 2017.[2] In 2018 she became a nominee member of Magnum Photos.[13][14]

Sim is currently a PhD candidate on scholarship at King's College London, researching British Malaya.[15]

Publications by Sim[]

  • The Long Road Home: Journeys Of Indonesian Migrant Workers. Jakarta: International Labour Organization, 2011. ISBN 9789221249955.

Short films[]

  • Dying To Breathe (2015) – 10 minute film, directed and filmed by Sim
  • Most People Were Silent (2017) – 3:40 minute film with audio soundscape, directed and filmed by Sim

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Sim Chi Yin. (28 August 2017). "Bio". Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Sim Chi Yin investigates the Fallout – British Journal of Photography". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  3. ^ "Sim Chi Yin". World Press Photo. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Ming, Ye. "How PDN's 30 Influenced Photographers Over the Years". Time. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Laurent, Olivier. "Sim Chi Yin Joins VII Photo as an Interim Member". Time. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d x-publishers. "A Subtle Place: An Interview with Sim Chi Yin". GUP Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  7. ^ "Do the Right Thing: Sim Chi Yin on Ethical Choices". PDN Online. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  8. ^ hermes (30 January 2016). "Singapore photojournalist Sim Chi Yin driven by sense of social justice". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "La storia audace di Sim Chi Yin, la fotografa da Nobel per la Pace che riflette sul nucleare senza mezzi termini". ELLE. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  10. ^ hermesauto (9 December 2017). "First Singaporean Nobel Peace Prize photographer Sim Chi Yin creates nuclear exhibition". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  11. ^ "Sim Chi Yin Joins VII as Member Photographer". viiphoto.com. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  12. ^ migration (10 July 2014). "Newly minted VII photographer Sim Chi Yin's selected works". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  13. ^ "Magnum Photos' international new wave of Nominees – British Journal of Photography". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  14. ^ "Updates from the 2018 Magnum Photos Annual General Meeting". Magnum Photos. 26 June 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  15. ^ hermes (30 July 2018). "Nobel Peace Prize photographer on a roll". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  16. ^ "Photography and Human Rights". Magnum Foundation. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  17. ^ "Announcements". W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  18. ^ "Young Woman Achiever 2014 Sim Chi Yin – Her World Woman of The Year". Her World. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  19. ^ "Sim Chi Yin, a Patient Photographer, Wins Chris Hondros Award". Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  20. ^ "Sim Chi Yin Wins 2018 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award". PDNPulse. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-30.

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