honorable mention
Christine Nagel singapore
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Moments in my neighborhood - HDB color coding
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues into its second year, causing lockdowns of various degrees and continuing to turn our ‘normal’ daily upside down, I have not been able to peruse my passion of landscape, travel, and nature photography as I would normally have.
I, therefore, have started to look at my neighborhood as hunting grounds for my photography taking a closer look at what is my immediate environment around my current home in Singapore.
This series is about the Housing & Development Board (HDB; public housing in Singapore) buildings in my area and their often colorful paint. Colors of hope in this time of uncertainty.
An economist by background, Christine also studied Chinese and spent a year at Fudan University, Shanghai, to attend Chinese language courses and lectures in Economics as part of a postgraduate scholarship. As the experiences made during the year in China were very captivating and fascinating, Christine decided to come back one day.
This happened in May 1997, when Christine was sent by her company – she meanwhile had started a career in the insurance industry – to Shanghai to help set up their life insurance company and later to head their Shanghai Representative Office. Christine and her husband, Boris, stayed four and a half years in Shanghai before being posted to Singapore in October 2001. Initially this was meant to be for a year or two.
Christine and Boris are still in Singapore. Both liked Singapore very much so they decided to stay. They have put down their roots in Singapore also to give their two children, Max and Ida, some stability during their schooling.
After 25 years in the financial industry, Christine decided to try out something else and spend more time pursuing her other passions: photography, sports, travelling – during these times of Covid-19 this is unfortunately put on hold -, food, and gardening. This resulted in several projects, one of which is participating in this competition.
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entry description
HDB Color CodingAs the Covid-19 pandemic continues into its second year, causing lockdowns of various degrees and continuing to turn our ‘normal’ daily upside down, I have not been able to peruse my passion of landscape, travel, and nature photography as I would normally have.
I, therefore, have started to look at my neighborhood as hunting grounds for my photography taking a closer look at what is my immediate environment around my current home in Singapore.
This series is about the Housing & Development Board (HDB; public housing in Singapore) buildings in my area and their often colorful paint. Colors of hope in this time of uncertainty.
about the photographer
Christine Nagel grew up in Metzingen, a small town, nestled at the foot of the Swabian Alb, near Stuttgart, South-Western Germany. While growing up in the countryside kindled Christine’s love for nature and the outdoors, her father’s business travels early on started a keen interest for the world beyond the Swabian Alb, particularly China.An economist by background, Christine also studied Chinese and spent a year at Fudan University, Shanghai, to attend Chinese language courses and lectures in Economics as part of a postgraduate scholarship. As the experiences made during the year in China were very captivating and fascinating, Christine decided to come back one day.
This happened in May 1997, when Christine was sent by her company – she meanwhile had started a career in the insurance industry – to Shanghai to help set up their life insurance company and later to head their Shanghai Representative Office. Christine and her husband, Boris, stayed four and a half years in Shanghai before being posted to Singapore in October 2001. Initially this was meant to be for a year or two.
Christine and Boris are still in Singapore. Both liked Singapore very much so they decided to stay. They have put down their roots in Singapore also to give their two children, Max and Ida, some stability during their schooling.
After 25 years in the financial industry, Christine decided to try out something else and spend more time pursuing her other passions: photography, sports, travelling – during these times of Covid-19 this is unfortunately put on hold -, food, and gardening. This resulted in several projects, one of which is participating in this competition.
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