{"id":7628,"date":"2012-06-21T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2012-06-21T18:18:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T01:18:17","slug":"featured-street-photographer-aikbeng-chia-mobile-photo-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/featured-street-photographer-aikbeng-chia-mobile-photo-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Street Photographer: AikBeng Chia from the Mobile Photo Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(“All He Ever Wanted” – Copyright AikBeng Chia \/ MPG)<\/em><\/p>\n

Eric\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Note<\/strong>: I am proud to share the work of AikBeng Chia<\/a> aka “ABC”. He is part of the MPG (Mobile Photo Group<\/a>) and is currently shooting in\u00c2\u00a0Singapore. I had the great pleasure of meeting ABC when I was in Singapore for my last street photography workshop with Leica, and even more honored to have him as one of my guest speakers\/co-teachers at the workshop as well! He has never had any formal training in photography, yet creates visually seductive images that are full of light, humanity, and soul.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>ABC<\/strong>: My name is AikBeng Chia, aka ABC. I’m born on a little island called Singapore. I like to wander the streets of Singapore, allowing myself to be seduced by the scenes the city I live in provides me.<\/p>\n

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I started mobile phone photography in late 2008 when i purchased my 1st iPhone 2G. I never had training in photography. But it wasn’t until 2010 I started taking mobile phone photography seriously. Using only an iPhone as my tool for creating images of the daily lives of people on the streets of Singapore.<\/p>\n

\"\"(“Let’s Wrap It Up” – Copyright AikBeng Chia \/ MPG)<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 2011, I joined the Mobile Photo Group (MPG). MPG is an international collective of photographers using the mobile device to shoot street or documentary photography.<\/p>\n

“Photography to me is democratic and the mobile phone is my eyes, my diary and my voice.”<\/p>\n

\"\"(“It’s Showtime” – Copyright\u00c2\u00a0AikBeng Chia \/ MPG)\"\"(“Light Through Darkness, A Mothers Love” – Copyright\u00c2\u00a0AikBeng Chia \/ MPG)\u00c2\u00a0\"\"(“Peek A Boo” -\u00c2\u00a0Copyright\u00c2\u00a0AikBeng Chia \/ MPG)<\/p>\n

\"\"(“The\u00c2\u00a0Canadian”\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Copyright\u00c2\u00a0AikBeng Chia \/ MPG)\u00c2\u00a0\"\"\u00c2\u00a0(“The Conversation” – Copyright\u00c2\u00a0AikBeng Chia \/ MPG)\"\"(“The Reflex” -\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Copyright\u00c2\u00a0AikBeng Chia \/ MPG)<\/div>\n
\"\"(“Tourists” -\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Copyright\u00c2\u00a0AikBeng Chia \/ MPG)<\/div>\n
\"\"(“Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” -\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Copyright\u00c2\u00a0AikBeng Chia \/ MPG)<\/div>\n

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Check Out more of AikBeng Chias work with the links below!<\/p>\n

Twitter – @aikbengchia<\/a><\/p>\n

Mobile Photo Group\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

www.aikbengchia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(“All He Ever Wanted” – Copyright AikBeng Chia \/ MPG) Eric\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Note: I am proud to share the work of AikBeng Chia aka “ABC”. He is part of the MPG (Mobile Photo Group) and is currently shooting in\u00c2\u00a0Singapore. I had the great pleasure of meeting ABC when I was in Singapore for my last street […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[535,372],"tags":[1251,1253,1252,21],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured-photographers","tag-aikbeng-chia","tag-mobile-phone-photography","tag-mpg","tag-street-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lets-Wrap-It-Up.jpg?fit=670%2C503&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}