Long-distance family portraits

Photographer John Clang is using projected Skype video to make portraits of Singaporean families whose members are scattered around the globe.

In Singapore, it is a common practice for entire families to gather on special occasions for a formal picture, often at a studio, with the resulting image framed and prominently displayed at home. The growing tendency of younger family members to take jobs abroad, however, has left many modern portraits missing a relation or two. So the Singaporean photographer John Clang devised a solution, piggybacking on the video-calling technology that already helps ease the dislocation of separated family members: Skype.

(via @bdeskin)

• John Clang
• photography
• Singapore