Lomographic Embassy Singapore
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“Don't think. Just shoot.” has long been the mantra of Lomographers worldwide and Objectifs is pleased to embrace and spread this philosophy as the Lomographic Embassy Singapore.
LOMO SUPPORTS LOCAL: LOMO + ELECTRICO COLLABORATION
As part of Electrico's launch of their new album, We Satellites, 8 Lomographers got a chance to follow the band around during their launch tour and shoot pictures of them on-stage, off-stage, being serious and/or plain goofing around! Some of the pictures can be viewed online on our Flickr page!
EXHIBITION
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| Pictures by Electrico with a Lomo LC-A+ and Fisheye No. 2 | |||
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| Aug 6, Butter Factory // Pictures by Cheewei and Jimmy | |||
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| Aug 9, *scape Youth Park // Pictures by Fiona and Guo Jie | |||
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| Aug 17, Cafe del Mar // Pictures by Alice and Cindy | |||
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| Aug 21, Home Club // Pictures by Ian and Mafie | |||
Come celebrate the launch of Electrico's new album and see the works of the 8 chosen ones, featured alongside pictures shot by the band themselves!
Exhibition Details
| Dates: | Aug 23 - Oct 6 |
| Details: | Open to public, free admission |
| Venue: | The Lomographic Embassy Singapore 12A Liang Seah Street |
ABOUT ELECTRICO
Singapore’s most stylish and prevalent band, Electrico, plays captivating, guitar-based rock n roll. Now a four-piece band comprising of David Tan (vocals, guitar), Desmond Goh (bass) and William Lim, Jr (drums, backing vocals) and Amanda Ling (keyboards), Electrico released their debut album “So Much More Inside” in August 2004 under Universal Music in Singapore, Australia, Thailand and Indonesia. The album achieved cult success following the release of their first single, “I Want You” and shot to the No 1 spot on local radio.
The band spent the next few years touring and offering Singapore, Thailand and Australia a taste of their dynamic live performances. Often sharing the stage with renown international acts like The Bravery, Beastie Boys, Rivermaya and many more, it is no wonder that Electrico has been consistently nominated and won countless media accolades.
Electrico released their second album “Hip City” in June 2006 which was an indication of their development as artistes, and had a grittier, edgier and more urgent sound to it. “Hip City” proved to be a popular hit, staying on HMV Singapore’s Top 10 sales chart for weeks. The first single, synth-rock “Love In New Wave” was remixed by resident Zouk DJ Aldrin Quek and dance producer Akien, and also became a hit dance anthem advocated by British DJ Pete Tong.
In December 2006, Electrico was invited and performed at the main stage in Malaysia’s “Rock The World VII” music festival. Shortly after, in March 2007, Electrico was invited to the South By Southwest (SXSW) music festival and performed several shows in California and Texas. In August 2007, “Love In New Wave” achieved the No 1 spot on Nu107fm, a popular Philippines radio station. Electrico’s long anticipated 3rd album, “We Satellites” is now available at all good record stores.
More information about the band is available on:
http://www.wesatellites.com/
http://www.electricomusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/electricomusic
THE MORE WE GET TOGETHER LOMOGRAPHY SESSIONS
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Jump on the Lomography bandwagon as we travel to the places less trodden in our sunny little island. The Lomographic Embassy Singapore is proud to present - The More We Get Together Lomography Sessions, a series of events for both the seasoned Lomographer and the curious and uninitiated.
Sessions are open to public, and admission is free. Pre-registration is recommended. A limited number of Colorsplash cameras will be available for loan for the events, if you belong to the curious and uninitiated category and would like to join us for our shooting expeditions. Please email us for more details.
Pictures of the event and Lomographs shot during the shoot-outs can be viewed on our Flickr group, The More We Get Together Lomography Sessions. Do keep checking back on the page as more pictures will be added as we go along!
| Session #01 | Open-mic + Shootout! |
Jul 31 / Thu, 7.30pm - 9.30pm Email singapore@lomographyasia.com with your name, contact number and the topic you'd like to speak about to pre-register. |
Flex those public speaking muscles, find your inner performer and talk about your Lomographic pet, your favourite camera trick, why you can't live without your Lomo cameras, recite a poem or sing that song you wrote for Lomography. The not-so-brave souls can join us as the supportive audience and lend your ears and eyes to the others! With your Lomographic tools and a complimentary roll of film, we will be rediscovering the bright and colourful Liang Seah Street and Tan Quee Lan Street - the very street that is home to the Lomographic Embassy Singapore. |
| Session #02 | Shooting Frenzy at Haw Par Villa |
Aug 23 / Sat, 3pm - 5.30pm Email singapore@lomographyasia.com with your name, contact number and camera that you will be using to pre-register. |
Go on a shooting frenzy at the very interesting Haw Par Villa, the forgotten tourist attraction! With its many colourful and queer sculptures and statues, Haw Par Villa will thrill the eyes and excite the cameras and many rolls of film. Learn about the different cameras, and discover new ways of using your cameras. Discover the beauty of playing with natural light or go crazy combining sunlight and colour flash! A bus will be provided to the venue from Objectifs, and a complimentary roll of film will be provided to each participant. |
| Session #03 | Meet An Expert Lomographer |
Oct 11 / Sat / 3pm - 5.30pm (Please note the confirmed and updated details!) Venue: Page One Bookshop at VivoCity, 1 Harbourfront Walk, #02-41/42 Open to public, free admission, pre-registration recommended. Email singapore@lomographyasia.com with your name and contact number to pre-register. |
In this episode, join Melvyn Lim, expert Lomographer and one of the founding fathers of Lomography in Singapore, as he shares his Lomography story and how he uses Lomography in his professional work. ABOUT MELVYN LIM Melvyn is a Senior Art Director and winner of the coveted Ogilvy Giant Award at Ogilvy & Mather Singapore. His wide-ranging projects include interactive projects for Levi's®, BP Castrol and digital mobile works for Nokia, all of which won him accolades and awards at local and international award shows. He defines Levi's® Copper Jeans website as one of his capstones. Once, working under the moniker 2manydesigners, he produced pro-bono collaborative works with Nike, Woods & Woods, U.N.K.L.E. and various music bands, to name a few. For 4 years Melvyn ran the Lomography Embassy which promoted the Russian Camera both locally and internationally. Through publicity events that featured the Lomo Lifestyle, interest in this cult phenomenon was positively revived. In 2005, Lomo was featured in the prominent digital film festival RESFEST through a showcase of videos using the cameras as a medium. When he's not spending time on his über sexy iPhone/iPod, he makes up lists of "Top Ten Favorite ___ of the Year" (think babes, music and film). The film, 'The Dark Knight' tops his film's category today. |
| Session #04 | Year-end Roundup + Shoot-out at Waterloo Street! |
Nov 6 / Thu, 7pm - 10pm Email singapore@lomographyasia.com with your name, contact number and camera that you will be using to pre-register. |
The final session of 2008 brings us back to the Lomographic Embassy Singapore for a year-end roundup. Hear about what went on in 2008, and what's up-and-coming in 2009! The session wraps with a night of Lomographing goodness on Waterloo Street with your Lomographic tool of choice and a roll of complimentary film. |
>> PAST EVENTS
:: Lomo Paradiso
:: Super Lomo
:: Hip to Be Square - Holga Competition and Exhibition
:: Heineken Greenspace City Hunt
:: Sinfully Lomo
:: What the ___ is Lomo?
>> ABOUT LOMOGRAPHY
>> STORE
>> CUSTOMER SERVICE
We are always trying to line up our Lomo calendar with new exhibitions, workshops and competitions for Lomographers. If you have a Lomo event coming up, have an idea to share, or would like to join our mailing list, email us at singapore@lomographyasia.com.
LOMO PARADISO
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| ©Jeremy Chua First Prize |
©Nicholas Chen Second Prize |
©Cindy Tan Third Prize |
40 globe-trotting Lomographers submitted a grand total of 495 pictures for this fantasy travel themed competition that lasted us through the Christmas/New Year/Chinese New Year holidays. While we're dreaming of our next exciting holiday, we'd like to congratulate Jeremy Chua, Nicholas Chen and Cindy Tan for having the most exotic travel Lomographs that took the fancy of our "official" Lomo Ambassador judges. Jeremy took home a S$400 travel voucher kindly sponsored by STA Travel, Nicholas bagged a Diana+ camera, and Cindy got a Lomo Agenda Notebook, a pack of Fotoclips, and an exclusive Diana F+ book.
SUPER LOMO
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| The Phantom Lomo Exhibition at The Arts House | ©Dominic Foo Winner of Shoot-a-Lomo |
Winners of Build-a-Lomo with their Lomo Superheroes | ©Jessica Chia Winner of The Phantom Lomo Competition |
Super Lomographers trooped down to the Arts House at Old Parliament Lane bright and early on Jul 1, 2006 and participated in a day of activities including a Lomo shoot-out with a set of clues provided by the Lomo Embassy, others got down and dirty trying out some of the Lomo cameras, and some others built superheroes with Lomographs and Fotoclips.
The exhibition lasted for a month and we'd like to extend our congratulations to Jessica Chia for bagging a Horizon Kompakt for having the most-voted Superhero photo!
HIP TO BE SQUARE - HOLGA COMPETITION & EXHIBITION
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| ©Herriot Stobo | ©Jael Chng | ©Law Chui Sia | ©Jessica Chia |
Holga enthusiasts were invited to pick up a free roll of black & white Ilford XP2 film at Ruby Photo with their Holga and start capturing their world in monochromes. The pictures were then put up on the Holga wall at Objectifs where votes were cast by the audience who came by for the exhibition from Oct 14 to Oct 27, 2005. Congratulations to Herriot Stobo, Jael Chng, Law Chui Sia and Jessica Chia for bagging an Epson scanner, an Epson printer, a ColorFlash Holga Starter Kit + Tunnelvision Lens + Filters, and a copy Adobe Photoshop Elements respectively!
HEINEKEN GREENSPACE CITY HUNT
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90 Lomographers went beyond colour, identity, control, love, words and space and discovered their greenspace on Sep 10, 2005, Saturday in Ann Siang/Chinatown. With the limited edition Greenspace Colorsplash Camera or their favourite Lomo camera, participants of the City Hunt went on a shooting frenzy with a certain shooting list of clues. Everyone was treated to complimentary beer from Heineken at the after-party at Asylum at Clarke Quay later that night where the winner of the City Hunt was announced. Congratulations to Brandon Lee! His pictures will represent Singapore in the Lomography Greenspace project along with winners from the city hunts held in London and Buenos Aires and winners from the international competition on the Lomography Greenspace minisite. A round of applause also to Hoe Shu Shen and Mikko Cayetano for coming in second and third respectively and for being proud owners of a limited edition Greenspace Colorsplash camera each!
Winners of the City Hunt stand to win attractive prizes, including a chance to win a round trip for 2 to Valencia, Spain complete with three nights’ accommodation. The complete work of all participants were up on a Lomowall at the international Heineken Greenspace festival in Valencia from 24 – 29 Oct, 2005.
SINFULLY LOMO
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| Gluttony by Brendon P | Pride by David Chan | Envy by Electrico | Anger by Emma Yong |
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| Lust by Royston Tan | Greed by Woods&Woods | Sloth by Theseus Chan |
Lomography encourages pride in spontaneous pictures, creates envy and greed in others for your luscious Lomo camera(s). The sexy curves of the camera incite lust. Anger sets in when that hunger for shooting is not satisfied and Lomography’s infamous “Don’t Think, Just Shoot” mantra challenges sloth. Gluttony is piqued with the rich and saturated pictures.
Seven artists, including “Dim Sum Dolly” Emma Yong, local fashion
label Woods & Woods, independent filmmaker Royston Tan, WORK’s creative
director Theseus Chan, Zouk’s resident DJ Brendon P, pop artist and
painter David Chan and local indie rock band Electrico were invited to interpret
the 7 Deadly Sins with a Colorsplash camera in the first act of this event.
The results were pictures saturated in sin and colours. In the second act,
Lomographers exhibited their sinful pictures at Objectifs. This Lomo extravaganza
culminated in a night of Sin and colours in Very Sinful Night at Velvet Underground
in Zouk in Jul 2007, where pictures by the seven artists were exhibited on illuminated
standing boxes. Heineken provided thirst quenchers with complimentary beer.
WHAT THE ___ IS LOMO?
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“What The ____ Is Lomo?” celebrates our passion for capturing the everyday.
In this art installation, we reconstructed the world as we know it with our basic building blocks – Lomo photographic prints. We recreated a Lomo living space, tastefully furnished with designer furniture, electronic gadgets and our very own art collection showcasing Lomo gums with pictures by local Lomographers.
This event was held in celebration of the launch of Objectifs as the new Lomo Embassy in Oct 2004.
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In the early 1990s, a couple of students chanced upon the LC-A in an
old camera shop in Vienna. Impressed by its sharp glass lends, extreme
light sensitivity and robust casing, they started shooting as many pictures
as possible in the most impossible of situations and from the most unusual
positions. The result was a flood of colourful, crazy, off-the-wall,
and extraordinary snapshots. The Lomographic Embassy Singapore is the cultural representative of the Lomographische AG (Lomographic Society International) and, at the same time, the first local service point for people who want to learn more about Lomography. We aim to build up and support an active Lomography community in Singapore and the region. For more information about Lomography and the cameras, visit www.lomographyasia.com. |
Objectifs retails a number of Lomo cameras and accessories. Please enquire about the availability of other cameras.
| . Actionsampler | . Actionsampler with Flash |
| . Colorsplash Camera | . Fisheye / Fisheye No. 2 |
| . Diana F+ | . Diana F+ Edelweiss White edition |
| . Diana F+ with Flash Package | . Holga ColorFlash Starter Kit |
| . Holga Pinhole Camera 135 / 120 | . Holga 135 BC |
| . Horizon Kompakt | . Horizon Perfekt |
| . LC-A+ | . Oktomat 8-Lens Camera |
| . Pop 9 Camera | . Supersampler |
| . Colorsplash Flash | . Diana Flash+ |
| . Diana+ 20mm Fisheye Lens | . Fisheye Circle Cutter |
| . Fisheye Submarine | . Ringflash |
| . Lomo Agenda A5 Notebook | . Lomurello Refill Box / Album |
| . Horizon Frame | . Holga Frame |
| . Sidekick Bag Canvas (Lite / Standard) | . Lomo Agenda A5 Notebook |
We provide options to customise cameras with logos or corporate colours, or purchases in bulk for non-commercial purposes. Please email singapore@lomographyasia.com for more information. Do note that camera customisations would require a minimum order quantity of 1000pcs.
If you are having trouble with your Lomo camera, please contact us at the Embassy and we will try our best to help you. When coming by with your faulty camera or flash, do remember to bring along your warranty card (the blue card that the retailer should have given you when you bought your camera), your official receipt, pictures and/or negatives that the faulty camera has produced if any.
Please note that we will only be able to do exchanges for cameras bought in Singapore or on Lomographyasia.com with manufacture defects which are purchased within a year with proof of purchase.
For enquiries / information:
Tel: +65 6339 3068
Email: singapore@lomographyasia.com