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]

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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]

As of 2018 Sim was a PhD candidate on scholarship at King's College London, researching British Malaya. [15]

Publications by Sim

Short films

Awards

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "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. 1 2 Ming, Ye. "How PDN's 30 Influenced Photographers Over the Years". Time. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Laurent, Olivier. "Sim Chi Yin Joins VII Photo as an Interim Member". Time. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  6. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 3 4 "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. ↑ "Nobel Peace Prize photographer on a roll". The Straits Times. 30 July 2018. 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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