A photographic archive
Nur Farah
Year 2 · Communication Studies (Photojournalism) · Singapore Black-and-white documentary photography. Mostly markets, migrant workers' rest days, and my own family.
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Sundays
Photos of migrant workers in our news are usually about crises. I wanted to show an ordinary good Sunday: cricket, haircuts, video calls home.
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Slide 1 of 3: Sundays
Experience
Photo Intern
The Weekend Paper (community newspaper)
- Shot 34 assignments, from school sports days to a town council meeting.
- Two front-page pictures.
- Learned to file on deadline from a car park.
Darkroom Monitor
Campus photography club
- Run Tuesday darkroom sessions and mix chemistry for 20 members.
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Contact sheet
Roll 14. Frame 8 is the one.
Slide 1 of 3: Contact sheet
About
My first camera was my mother's old film point-and-shoot, and I still prefer film. It makes me slower and more careful, which suits documentary work.
I'm most interested in ordinary days rather than dramatic ones. I try to spend more time with people than I spend photographing them, and I always show them the pictures first.
Outside photography I volunteer at a community kitchen on Fridays, and I'm slowly learning Tamil from my neighbour in exchange for helping with her phone.
Education & community
Bachelor of Communication Studies, Year 2, Singapore.
Photojournalism track. Modules: News Photography, Visual Ethics, Documentary Storytelling, Media Law, Darkroom Practice.
Photo editor of the student magazine, 2026. Volunteer at a weekly community kitchen.
Kind words
The intern who asked to stay for the boring part of the council meeting, and got the only good picture.
Photo editor, The Weekend Paper
Skills
- Photography
- 35mm & 120 film
- Darkroom printing
- Low-light
- Editing a sequence
- Journalism
- Caption writing
- Interviews
- Visual ethics
- Deadline filing
- Digital
- Lightroom
- Film scanning
- InDesign basics
Recent updates
13 Sep 2026
1 Aug 2026
24 Apr 2026
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