Visual Archivist Aik Beng Chia On Being A Photographer In The Era Of Social Media
He’s amassed close to 40K followers on his namesake Instagram account with his street photography shot mostly on his iPhone (fun fact: he started with the iPhone 2G). Surely, the Singapore visual archivist popularly known as ABC knows a thing or two about being a photographer in a social media-obsessed world.
Visual archivist Aik Beng Chia is known for his unvarnished street portraits of everyday life. On this page, his photo of three of the four founding members of the acclaimed Singapore-based contemporary art and design collective Phunk – (from left) William Chan, Alvin Tan and Jackson Tan – made up like the members of American rock band Kiss (they’re big fans) and shot at a coffee shop last year. Credit: Aik Beng Chia