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The work and awards of Sim Chiyin, a niece, daughter of a cousin on my mother’s side of the family, is featured in this Post.

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Visual Artist Sim Chi Yin, Nobel Peace Prize Photographer 2017. (Photo: Alan Lim)

Sim Chi Yin has travelled to North Korea and the US to photograph nuclear sites as part of the Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2017, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize exhibition is named “Ban the Bomb” inspired by ICAN’s slogan.

Equipped with cameras and a drone, Sim Chi Yin has spent the past two months traveling along the border of North Korea and across six American states to depict a world we otherwise would not see. Sim Chi Yin’s photographic series –Fallout– offers an insightful investigation into the realities of nuclear sites and nuclear weapons, and how they have affected individual lives and societies.

“Creating this exhibition has been fascinating for me given that I had read Cold War history at university and my previous career as a Beijing-based journalist writing about the region including North Korea. I set out to create a series of images pairing the landscapes of North Korea with those of the United States – which are the only country to test nuclear weapons in the 21^st Century and the only country to use them. I found some interesting, uncanny parallels, which led me to reflect on the human experience with nuclear weapons, past and present. Given the current global worries over the recent North Korean missile tests, and the war of words between Pyongyang and Washington, it feels particularly timely to reflect on this issue,” says Ms. Sim.

“The Nobel Peace Center is honored to have had the opportunity to work together with Sim Chi Yin. On assignment for the Nobel Peace Center, Sim Chi Yin went to parts of the world that most have not seen, offering us a lens through which to consider what we know of nuclear weapons and their imprint. She has offered us a way to look back at how humans created nuclear technology and how we are still grappling with its consequences today” says Ms. Liv Tørres, Director at the Nobel Peace Center.
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Sim, who works in multidisciplinary story-telling, is from Singapore and has been based in China for a decade. In recent years, her work has been shown in museums, galleries and photo festivals in Asia, the US and Europe, including a show at the Istanbul Biennale in 2017. She also does commissioned work for leading global publications like The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Financial Times Magazine and The New Yorker.

Sim was a Magnum Foundation Human Rights and Photography fellow at New York University in 2010 and a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography in 2013. To learn more about Sim, see her website here: http://chiyinsim.com.

http://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/pressbriefing/#/pressreleases/visual-artist-sim-chi-yin-is-this-years-nobel-peace-prize-photographer-2317920

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*Sim Chi Yin Joins VII Photo as an Interim Member

*Sim Chi Yin wins Singapore Young Woman of the Year award

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“Roots” book launched! Available http://twentyfifteen.myshopify.com/collections/photographers-folios/products/roots-by-sim-chiyin … @VIIPhoto

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It started with a photograph: the tanned man with a high forehead and thick lips, who carried a twin-lens camera around his neck. This was my paternal grandfather, Shen Huansheng (沈焕盛), the only other photographer and journalist in the family, whom none of my relatives had spoken about since his death in 1949. He was executed by the Kuomintang and is buried in our ancestral home village in Meixian, east Guangdong. In 2011, I travelled to Meixian to piece together his story. It is also the story of our family, whose fate turned on his death, and of the Hakkas in the Chinese diaspora.”

For an additional processing and mailing fee, you can also choose to receive the books by post instead of self-collection.

Each book measures 28 x 38cm, and will be shrink wrapped to protect it. Options for self collection or local delivery are provided. Click on the drop-down field to select. For self-collection, you may pick up your copy at the launch of the book on Saturday 5th September 2015, 3pm at the Jendela Visual Arts Space in the Esplanade where the TwentyFifteen.sg exhibition is currently being shown.. After the launch date, you can collect your copy at:

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Thank you to The Guardian for this opportunity to return to photograph and reflect on my own country, my place in it. We explored and expressed what we could within the parameters of making a travel story. Thanks to producer/cameraman Joseph Matthews for an interesting time, and to Bryan van der Beek for letting me ride on the back of his monster motorbike!
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The Straits Times ‏@STcom Oct 17

Legal eagle is WomanoftheYear; Photographer wins Young Woman award http://bit.ly/1rHOZxn 

The magazine also presented the annual Young Woman Achiever award to women aged 35 and younger who have accomplished much and have the potential to go further. This year’s winner is freelance photographer Sim Chi Yin, 35, who is known for her photographs on social justice issues, such as the lives of migrant workers.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 10, 2014 SIM CHI YIN JOINS VII AS MEMBER PHOTOGRAPHER

Sim Chi Yin, © Alan Lim

VII is excited to announce that Sim Chi Yin, formerly of the VII Mentor Program, has been selected to join the agency as a member photographer. Her membership goes into effect this month.“It’s a great honor to be offered a spot in a collective with some of the leading documentary photographers in the field today,” said Chi Yin in response to the news. “I value the opportunity to work with VII, as they adapt and innovate in an agency world and industry that’s currently in a turbulent state. I want to use this opportunity to learn how a cooperative works and instead of wondering and watching from afar, get involved in trying to find ways to move forward.”Marcus Bleasdale, who served as Chi Yin’s mentor, says, “VII is thrilled to announce the addition of Sim Chi Yin to its membership. Chi Yin has developed incredibly in the VII mentor program and during her time has authored several powerful bodies of work from Asia. Her journalistic ethic and her role as a socially-concerned photographer is core to the values VII holds dear and we believe she will be a powerful and important voice in our community for years to come.

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Sim Chi Yin, who studied history and international relations at the London School of Economics, began her career as an award-winning journalist and foreign correspondent for The Straits Times, Singapore’s national English daily, where she worked for nine years before turning to photography.

In 2010, she was awarded a Magnum Foundation fellowship for a summer programme in “Photography and Human Rights” at New York University. Chi Yin was a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography in 2013, with a personal project on terminally-ill Chinese gold miners.

Chi Yin was on the British Journal of Photography’s “Ones to Watch” list of photographers in 2014. She was also named one of the 30 top emerging photographers by Photo District News in 2013.

For press inquiries regarding this announcement please contact Ed Kashi.

Follow Sim Chi Yin online at

viiphoto.com/author/chi-yin-sim/
www.chiyinsim.com

ABOUT VII

VII Photo Agency is the world’s preeminent agency representing contemporary photojournalists. Created in 2001 by seven leading photojournalists, VII today represents 19 award-winning visual storytellers. VII exists to support its photographers in producing visual content of journalistic integrity that informs the world about significant social, political and cultural issues, and encourages positive change in societies.

Recognized by American Photo as one of the top three “100 Most Important People in Photography”, the agency has worked with top tier publications since its inception, partnered with organizations including UNFPA and Doctors Without Borders to create compelling stories that ensure lasting impact through reporting, photography and film, and has exhibited in leading museums, including the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art (New York) and the Louvre (Paris).

Current members are: Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Marcus Bleasdale, Stefano De Luigi, Jessica Dimmock, Ashley Gilbertson, Ron Haviv, Ed Kashi, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Joachim Ladefoged, Davide Monteleone, Christopher Morris, Maciek Nabrdalik, Franco Pagetti, Sim Chi Yin, Stephanie Sinclair, John Stanmeyer, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Tomas van Houtryve, and Donald Weber.

http://viiphoto.com/contentNewsletter/PressReleases/SimChiYin-Becomes-VII-Member/

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Photo: In #Perpignan for the annual major reportage photography festival @visapourlimage. Speaking on a… http://tmblr.co/Zu5uYx1PoAz8N

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The New York Times

July 9, 2014 1:39 pmJuly 9, 2014 1:39 pm

A Familiar Destiny to Photograph the New China

By JAMES ESTRIN

Sim Chi Yin had a cushy expat life in Beijing working as a reporter for The Singapore Straits Times, writing long feature stories and sometimes taking photos. The company paid for her education at the London School of Economics in exchange for eight years of employment. She had health insurance, a pension and job security.

So why did she walk away from that after nine years?

“I wanted to be a photographer but the editors at The Straits Times said I was overqualified,” she recalled. “Almost every year I asked to be assigned to the photo desk but they didn’t take visual journalism seriously.”

Ms. Sim — an ethnic-Chinese, middle-class child from Singapore whose family had risen from humble roots — had wanted to be a photographer since she was a teenager. So as grateful as she was to her newspaper, she took a gamble on photography.

Her decision, which meant slashing her expenses and moving to a smaller apartment, has paid off: Last month she joined the cooperative photo agency VII as an interim member, after being mentored for the past three years by Marcus Bleasdale as part of VII’s mentorship program.

For the full article:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/vii-sim-chi-yin-china-photos-family-destiny-to-photograph-the-new-china/

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 | By Olivier Laurent | 2 Comments

Sim Chi Yin Joins VII Photo as an Interim Member
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Sim Chi Yin / VII

A transvestite performs at a wedding ceremony in a neighbourhood on the fringe of Beijing, in an area that was once rural and has now just become urban.

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In 2010, Sim Chi Yin threw away the “cushy, secure life” that comes with the job of staff foreign correspondent for the Straits Times, Singapore’s popular English-language daily, to become a freelance photographer. “I wanted to learn to swim or sink on my own,” she tells TIME.

Four years later, Sim has established herself as a photojournalist, working regularly on assignment for the New York Times. “In 2010, I got a Magnum Foundation fellowship, which allowed me to study with photographer Susan Meiselas and [academic] Fred Ritchin,” she says. “This prepared me for my major transition from text journalism to freelance photography.”

Now, after spending three years in VII Photo’s Mentor Program, with Marcus Bleasdale overseeing her work, Sim has been offered a position of interim member at the agency. “It’s a great honor to be offered a spot in a collective with some of the leading documentary photographers in the field,” she says. “Since I quit my writing job, I’ve been thrown into assignment photographic work rather quickly. I now would very much like to do more thoughtful, meaningful projects and group projects on global issues.”

For the next couple of years, Sim will pay VII Photo’s monthly membership fees and participate in the agency’s internal meetings, but she won’t hold voting rights. In 2016, she will be able to apply for full membership.

“Agencies aren’t really about getting assignments and resales these days,” she notes. “There’s of course some brand recognition that comes with being associated with VII, especially in the West, but for me it really comes down to what I can do within this group—banding together under the broad common interests of doing socially meaningful storytelling.”

Sim also hopes she’ll be able to build VII Photo’s profile in China and across Asia. “China is an important country, and I hope to be able to find partnerships in this part of the world [to create links] with the Western-centered photography industry,” she tells TIME. “I believe we can use visual storytelling and photography, both universal languages, to enhance our bonds and build understanding.”

Sim Chi Yin is a photographer based in Beijing, China. She is represented by VII Photo.

Olivier Laurent is the editor of TIME LightBox. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @olivierclaurent.

For the full article and photos:

Read more: Sim Chi Yin Joins VII Photo as an Interim Member – LightBoxhttp://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/09/sim-chi-yin-joins-vii-photo-as-an-interim-member/#ixzz377KhTCCO

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Chi Yin Sim is a photographer based in Beijing, a member of the VII Photo Agency Mentor Program for emerging talents. When she’s not working on personal projects on social issues in the region, she shoots regularly for The New York Times. Alrik Swagerman, Co-founder of Viewbook, calls Chi Yin at home in Beijing.

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“Just go chase that personal project that you feel really strongly about.”

Chi Yin Sim is a photographer based in Beijing, a member of VII Photo Agency’s Mentor Program for emerging talents. She’s been selected for the PDN30 – Emerging photographers to watch – in 2013. When she’s not working on personal projects on social issues in the region, she shoots regularly for the New York Times. Alrik Swagerman, Co-founder of Viewbook, calls Chi Yin at home in Beijing, China. Just back from from an assignment, Chi Yin tells us about her work, personal drive and her view on getting ahead in today’s editorial industry.

Sim Chi Yin – Nominated artist for ICON de MCB 2013

http://youtu.be/Roz6qiK2mZs

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ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu 2013 Nominee: Sim Chi Yin

Sim Chi Yin is a Singaporean photographer based in Beijing. She is represented by VII Photo Agency on its Mentor Program.

She is among the PDN30 – Photo District News’ top 30 “emerging photographers to watch” – in 2013.

She works on projects on social issues in China and Southeast Asia. She has photographed for the New York Times, Le Monde, Newsweek, TIME magazine, Vogue USA, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Businessweek, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, New York Times Sunday Magazine and Stern.

Her work has also been exhibited in New York, Oslo, London, Jakarta and Singapore.

In 2010, she was awarded a Magnum Foundation “Photography and Human Rights” fellowship at New York University.

A fourth-generation overseas Chinese, Chi Yin was born and grew up in Singapore. She did history and international relations degrees at the London School of Economics and Political Science, on a Singapore Press Holdings scholarship.

Chi Yin was a journalist and foreign correspondent for The Straits Times and Singapore Press Holdings for nine years before quitting to be a freelance photographer.

She sometimes dreams in mute, black-and-white mode, but in real life is fascinated by colour and light, and is at home in both English and Mandarin.

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Time Lightbox

Monday, September 9, 2013 | By Mikko Takkunen | 1 Comment

PJL: September 2013 (Part 1)

Features and Essays

Tomas Munita: Inside Fukushima’s Evacuation Zone (NYT) Errors cast doubt on Japan’s cleanup of nuclear accident site

Sim Chi Yin: Burma Illuminated (Foreign Policy) Scenes of a changing Myanmar

Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/09/09/pjl-september-2013-part-1/#ixzz2ePercoHV

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Sim Chiyin

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hang out with top Chinese tennis player Li Na on assignment for the Newyorktimes Sunday Magazine. Li Na, known to be a rather private and independent-minded person, opened up and we had many laughs at ourselves as 30-something women. It was rather hard work keeping up with her tough physical training! But a fun assignment and an inside look into Li Na’s (training) life.A six-page spread in this weekend’s NYT Magazine.With many thanks to Stacey Baker @brooklarmer, Alison Meyer of VII Photo Agency, and of course Li Na and her coach Carlos Rodriguez!http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/magazine/li-na-chinas-tennis-rebel.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all

Li Na, China’s Tennis Rebel

http://www.nytimes.com

What she wants and what the Chinese government wants are not the same. This is the secret to her success.

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Global Post

Emily JudemFebruary 19, 2013 12:35

The Story Behind the Story: Sim Chi Yin on photographing ‘The Great Divide’ (VIDEO)

Via a Google+ video interview, Sim Chi Yin talks about her recent reporting for GlobalPost’s Special Report, ‘The Great Divide.’

In January, Sim Chi Yin and her camera crossed 6,000 miles and 16 time zones to document the lives of migrant workers in Beijing and Los Angeles. The two cities share a Gini coefficient of about 0.48, and she set out to learn what income inequality looked like in both places.

In Beijing she found migrants from other parts of China trying to save some money to return home. In L.A., she found Latin American immigrants desperately searching for the American Dream they had traveled so far to find. But the parallels surprised her.

“The lives of these two migrants [in L.A. and Beijing] are woven together through the shared experience of just how hard it is to find work in the shadows of two of the greatest economies in the world,” she wrote in a recent post for GlobalPost’s GroundTruth blog.

Through her breathtaking photographs, Chi Yin explored two similar worlds often hidden from mainstream society. In this video, she tells GlobalPost’s “The Story Behind the Story” what it took to capture these images, what surprised her and why she wanted to tell this story of inequality.

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AU CœUR DU CLUB LE PLUS PUISSANT DE CHINE

• Le Lundi, 11 Février 2013 par Laure de Charette © Sim Chi Yin

Au sommet d’une tour péki¬noise, dirigeants chinois, investisseurs étrangers et businessmen locaux concluent des contrats industriels en sirotant des grands crus. Bien¬venue au Capital Club, inaccessible au commun des mortels.

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Just up: Two stories on the income gap I shot recently in Beijing and Los Angeles for Global Post and VII, part of GP’s interesting new series on global inequality, comparing US cities to their global equivalents based on the Gini coefficient.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/130124/migrants-beijing-china-income-gap-great-divide

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130114/latin-american-immigrants-los-angeles-inequality

And a blog post with some of my thoughts on how the situation in the two cities compares: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/groundtruth/beijing-los-angeles-income-inequality

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In China, a Vast Chasm Between the Rich and the Rest

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

The gulf between China’s booming cities and its poor countryside has become a major source of social unrest.

The Great Divide is a series about inequality.

Tags:

Beijing (China), China, Income Inequality, Migrant Labor (Agriculture), Photography, Shanghai (China)

BEIJING — The passing coal miners in remote Shaanxi Province took one look at our marooned Audi and walked on, leaving us stuck on the sleet-covered mountain road.

As dusk fell, I managed to mingle with some young migrant workers, and trek with them through a snowy mountain pass and onto the last bus for the day. “We thought you were rich city people, coming out here in an Audi,” one worker told me. “That’s why no one helped you.”

He had become chatty only after I assured him that I had taken a ride in a friend’s Audi — the car make of choice for Chinese government officials — only because I was rushing out to the mountains to visit a dying villager I had been photographing over for a year.

Read the rest by clicking on the link

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