Page 49 - NYAA Annual Report 2021
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Inaugural NYAA-NParks Garden Festival Photo
            Exhibition
            The  inaugural  NYAA-NParks  Garden  Festival  Photo
            Exhibition was launched by Mr Desmond Lee, Minister
            for  National  Development  and  Minister-in-Charge
            for  Social  Services,  at  the  HortPark  on  17  October
            2021. About forty guests were invited to the launch
            ceremony. However, the number was capped below
            fifty due to the COVID-19 pandemic SMM rulings. A
            photo exhibition was displayed by four professional
            award-winning  Singapore  photographers,  Darren
            Soh, Charmaine Yap, Gareth Phua and Yeo Wee Han.   Inaugural  NYAA-NParks  Garden  Festival  Photo  Exhibition
            The photo exhibition was attended by photographers   launched  by  Mr  Desmond  Lee,  Minister  for  National
            from  secondary  schools,  ITE,  junior  college  and   Development at HortPark.
            polytechnics.

            After the official launch, the NYAA YPN and NParks
            conducted four workshops on 20 and 26 November
            and 10 and 18 December 2021. The four workshops
            were  well  attended,  and  students  learned  the
            concepts, techniques and subject matters from the
            professional photographers. The students were asked
            to go out and shoot on the theme Nature in the City
            and submit their images to the NYAA for selection for
            the Garden Festival 2022 Photo Exhibition.



            NYAA-NParks Photography Workshop
            Mr  Darren  Soh,  an  architectural  and  landscape
            photographer  and  NYAA  Gold  Award  holder  (1998
            Cohort),  led  three  award-winning  photographers
            to mentor 40 students from secondary schools, ITE
            and  polytechnics  in  the  art  of  capturing  nature  in
            Singapore through the lens.

            The  workshops  held  in  November  and  December
            2021  discovered  many  raw  talents  in  our  young
            people. One such participant, Ms Liew Shan Yi from
            ITE College East, captured a magical image outside
            HortPark on the Alexander Arch toward the Southern
            Ridges,  an  almost  perfect  image  through  her  lens.
            She displayed significant potential to join the ranks
            of  renowned  award-winning  photographers  in
            Singapore if she continued to develop her skills.

                                                                      NYAA-NParks Photography Workshops.

















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