John Clang to curate personal photography competition to be on show at Spikes Asia

Spikes Asia, in association with global brand agency The Brand Union, is introducing SpikesAlso, a new project that will showcase the personal artistic skills and talent of the region’s creative community. This year the focus is on photography and the event is supported by Getty Images.

People working in advertising, media, design, digital, PR and clients can submit their personal photography, the best of which will be selected by renowned Singaporean visual artist and photographer John Clang (pictured), and displayed at the Spikes Asia Festival. The top entrants stand to be offered the opportunity to become Getty Images contributors.

The brief is very simple: there is always an untold story everywhere around you. You see them every day. If you don’t, look twice. Capture a moment that makes the mundane beautiful.

It is free to enter and those wishing to take part have from today until Monday 5 September to submit up to three photographs. Further information, full specifications and how to enter, can be found on www.spikes.asia/also/.

“A good photograph is one that brings us face to face with our own existence. It pulls the stranger standing next to us into the intimate radius of our life. It collapses the beauty and strangeness around us into one,” comments John Clang who will curate the exhibition. “The commonplaces attract me. I resonate with subject matters closely related to my daily life. An image that inspires is one that brings us face to face with our own existence,” he continued.

John Clang was born in Singapore in 1973 and lives and works in New York and Singapore. His work is exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Singapore Art Museum, which has acquired some of his artwork as part of their permanent collection.