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1900s Coolies, plantation workers, ma jie, Samsui women
2008 Indonesian maids, Chinese construction workers, Bangladeshi
cleaners

Imagine the Singapore Story without them.

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The Workers from Samsui
a photo exhibition by Sim Chi Yin
@ bus stops around Singapore, from 19 December 2007 to 29 January 2008

Presented as part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2008.

Click here to view a slideshow of the images put up for the festival with Chi Yin telling you more about her experience

Click here to download a copy of the Samsui Women Essay written by John Gee, President of Transient Workers Count Too for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2008. Please note that this essay is for viewing only.

About the Artist

Sim Chi Yin is a journalist with The Straits Times who takes picturesmainly when she's off work. Her portfolio of pictures from rural Siberiawas among the finalists' in the 1999 Ian Parry Award, a photojournalismcompetition run by The Sunday Times of London, and exhibited in the award show in London. She was the regional (Asia) winner in the 2003 Commonwealth Photographic Awards. Between 1999 and 2001, she did
projects on a Maoist village in China and the Roma (Gypsies) in Romania.

In 2003, she was among six local photographers who created Day Off, which documented the lives of migrant domestic workers here, as part of an awareness campaign. The exhibition opened at Toa Payoh bus interchange and toured National Library branches. In 2005, she picked up on that theme again in a group project which taught migrant workers to photograph their own lives. 50 images by workers were exhibited in
InsideOut, which was held at photo/video school Objectifs during The Necessary Stage's M1 Singapore Fringe Festival in February 2006.