How this Philanthropist is Helping Smaller Arts Organisations in Singapore
As a child, Pierre Lorinet loved anything related to graphic arts. His great, great-grandfather was a 19th-century painter, and his family still owns the summer house-cum-studio in the French region of Fontainebleau, where aspiring landscape artists often congregated. Paintings done by family members are still proudly displayed in their homes. In his late teens, Lorinet took up photography and was later selected with fellow university students to work alongside renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado for a Magnum Photos project. Even as a student, he would buy posters of famous works such as...