"Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
-Yousuf Karsh

"If one photographs people, it is their inner look that must be revealed."
-Henri Cartier-Bresson


Photography found Alan in his early teens through the viewfinder of his Dad's Minolta X-300. He now shoots with a collection of compact rangefinders, most of them older than he.

Given the constraints of his tiny apartment in Singapore's Chinatown district, he now works in a hybrid of manually developing negatives in photo chemicals and scanning them for the Web. He drinks umeshu and soups his negs in Kodak HC110, and tries not to mix his liquids. He shares his apartment with some 30 antique cameras, the eldest a 1949 Canon IIb, engraved "Made in Occupied Japan." It still works.

Alan is a producer at a global financial TV news network. He has been in journalism for 13 years, in a career that has taken him to television, radio and magazine newsrooms in Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The Singapore-native was educated at Canadian and British universities.

Alan seeks to put his footprints around the world and has traveled widely across Asia, North America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He is still looking for a place to call home.

July 2007