Moving
2nd Migrant Workers Photography Festival
4 - 19 September 2021
Objectifs (Lower Gallery and Courtyard)
Opening Live-Stream Event
5 September, Sunday, 2pm
Moving connotes movement, flows, transitions, and action, but also affect and emotion. Moving is both an acknowledgement and aspiration towards greater migrant visibility in local discourse, as well as stronger rights and representation. In a time of Covid-19, where movement — especially those of migrant workers’ — has been curtailed, Moving hopes to spark questions and reflections on what movement means and why it is important to various community members.
In its second edition, the Migrant Workers Photography Festival received 131 submissions across two categories: Single Image, and Series (3-5 images). The images were judged by award-winning photographers Xyza Cruz Bacani (Philippines) and Alecia Neo (Singapore). The shortlisted images engage with the theme in various ways: they include icons and infrastructure of movement, movement through time and space, emotional and personal journeys, but also its antonyms: stillness and rootedness.