Burmese high school students in Mae La camp, the largest of nine refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border. (2025)
Mr Walton, secretary general and co-founder of Myanmar’s Employers Organisation (MEO), once ran language centers in Myanmar. After fleeing conscription, he now lives in Mae Sot alongside other businessmen targetted by the military. He teaches remotely while leading efforts to support businesses under military rule and in exile. (2025)
Former rebel soldiers who only wanted to be known as Mr Pyat Ta, 23, and Mr Ayoe, 24, left Mae Tao’s prosthetic production unit with more than new legs. Friendship blossomed through their shared ordeal of losing limbs in Myanmar’s conflict. Living in the same safehouse, the pair often go for prosthetic fittings and physiotherapy sessions at Mae Tao Clinic together. (2025)
As results for other constituencies rolled in, SDP’s Dr Chee Soon Juan walked away briefly from party members and media. It was just announced that he had lost Sembawang West SMC to PAP candidate Poh Li San by just about 6 percentage points — with 46.81 per cent of the votes.
PSP chairman Tan Cheng Bock smells a bouquet of flowers gifted to him at the start of his walkabout at Mayflower Market & Food Centre. He had just celebrated his 85th birthday the previous day. (2025)
PM Wong waves to office workers during PAP’s lunchtime election rally. The rally drew CBD workers on their lunch breaks and was the first to take place at UOB Plaza’s promenade in 10 years. (2025)
Mr Joel Seet extends his hand towards the same lamp from a 1989 VHS tape recording his mum took. Hearing her voice reminds him that she didn’t always sound like she did in the last stages of her life. A surgical procedure affected her voice, and she passed in 2023 after a five-year battle with skin cancer. (2025)
Azelle Ng, 15, with her two lovebirds, Dopey (in green) and Seraphine (in yellow) in her room on June 24, 2025. Caring for the lovebirds has become a part of her lifestyle. She sometimes confides in them when she feels troubled. (2025)
For several months, 84-year-old Mdm Chan who is diagnosed with terminal cancer, had ceased all treatments. Yet, she spends her final days not being cared for, but caring for her 60-year-old son who is half-paralysed and unable to speak after a stroke. After his wife and daughter left him, Mdm Chan is his only visitor. Every visit, Mdm Chan wheels her son to a bench by the century-old tree, spending a quiet moment together. (2024)
Visual artist Jo Ho, surrounded by circuit boards and wires, holds up a reflective film from a dismantled television as part of her GenAI installation at Objectifs — Centre for Photography and film. (2026)
Butoh dancer Elden Zachary holds a recreation of a Roman decahedron, a mysterious anthropological object that embodies AI in the performance. Through the avant garde genre of dance, he explores the impact of AI on society. (2026)