Happy Here
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2012
Photography
People often wrote comments on the back of a printed photo in the past, and the handwriting became a part of the photo itself. The text ranged from the photo information to poems, verses, letters, or even a song lyric related to the visual photograph. Often, copies of the photo were also shared with friends and family as a way of sharing the subject’s joy or memories of that happy occasion. This phenomenon has shifted to sharing and commenting on photos through social media platforms in today's digital age.
In Happy Here, Doni is interested in examining this changing relationship between people and photos. Old photographs were found in Singapore and reproduced with their original writing overlapping the image.
Doni created this work during his residency period at the Objectifs Center for Photography and Film – Singapore.
Text: Charmaine Toh
