Ivan Polunin News Today

A brief story on development and conservation.

From mangroves and coastal communities to sprawling farmland where high-rise HDBs now stand, check out scenes of old Singapore through the lens of the late naturalist Ivan Polunin.

Dr Ivan Polunin was many things. He was a devoted family man, a documentarian with the eye of an artist. But most of all, he was a humanist.

Dr Ivan Polunin amassed more than 35,000 photographs in his personal archive. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Prolific Singaporean film director Tan Pin Pin, whose work interrogates the documentation, presentation and sanitization of Singaporean history, visited Yale for a screening of her 2007 film “Invisible City.”

In a new book, Orang Asli photographer Jefree Salim gives the world a glimpse of the life of his Seletar coastal community in Johor