DARK CITIES (SOFTCOVER) by Shyue Woon

DARK CITIES Trilogy (DCT), inaugural winner of the FIRST DRAFT Award by THEBOOKSHOW, is a series of three books of photographs re-imagining fringe spaces in the metropoles of Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul. CARPARK, first in the series, investigates the nocturnal meanderings of a dark multi-storey carpark in Singapore. CAPSULE, the second book, revisits a futuristic tower in Ginza built in the 1970s, through the imagined eyes and mind of its architect. The third book EULJIRO is a lost and found diary of a fading iconic Seoul district, once a symbol of the country’s modernisation.

DCT is the for finalist for SIPF (Singapore International Photography Festival) Photobook Open call 2018, finalist for Encontros de Imagem Open Call, Portugal 2018 and finalist for IPA Award for Photobook 2018.

DCT was previously exhibited at First Draft @Objectifs 2017, Tokyo Art Book Fair 2017, Dali Photography Exhibition 2017, New Margin @DECK Singapore 2018, Basel Art Book Fair 2018, Shanghai Art Book Fair 2018, Singapore Art Book fair 2018, Penang Obscura Photography Festival 2018, Singapore International Photo Festival 2018 and Unseen Amsterdam 2018.

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About Shyue Woon

Shyue Woon, trained as an Architect, uses photography as a tool to explore subtext in the built environment. In his daily practice as an architect, he turns aspirations and dreams into constructible reality. At night, he reverses the process – deconstructing reality and spaces into fiction and figments of imagination.

Shyue Woon’s debut photobook Dark Cities won the inaugural First Draft Award by THEBOOKSHOW. Woon was also selected as an artist in Mt Rokko International Photography Festival Emerging Photographers Showcase 2016 and his work has been exhibited in Turkey, Japan, Ukraine, Australia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore. His works were also selected for +50, a collective for Singapore’s Photographers; and “Thank you, Mr Lee” (2015), a book tribute to late LKY.