Nothing newsworthy, just moments from everyday life. I like to lose myself in the streets, letting thoughts fade while I focus on what unfolds around me, carefully composing life as I see it.
The Independent Photographer
"Faded"
A group of youth plays a ball game in a derelict sports complex in Havana. Despite uncertain futures, they find a sense of community and fleeting hope in the shared spirit of the game.
Istanbul, Turkey
A selection of photographs from my June 2024 trip to Istanbul. This set highlighting the more mysterious side of this fascinating city.
"Feline Harmony"
Highly Commended in the Siena Photo Awards 2025
1st Place Monochrome Photography Awards - Street Photography 2024
1st Place ReFocus Black and White Contest, Non-Professional 2024
GOLD ReFocus Black and White Contest - Street Photography genre 2024
EXPOSURE ONE AWARD Discovery of the Year 2024
EXPOSURE ONE AWARD People's vote awards 2024
Winner Merit Awards All About Photo Black and White Magazine #41 2024
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Feline Harmony was captured at a local fisherman's port in Turkey in June 2024. During the summer months, when fishing regulations keep the fishermen ashore, cats roam freely in search of food and companionship. The image portrays black cats resting on white plastic sheets and a white cat amidst dark fishing nets, creating an unexpected and candid Yin and Yang effect.
Awards
2025 The Independent Photographer - Finalist Street Photography award
2025 Siena Photo Awards - awarded Highly Commented in street photography category
2025 ReFocus Bronze award - Street Photography category with series 'Boerenbruiloft'
2025 Paris International Street Photography Awards - Winner Gold Medal in the category « Modern Street » and overall Special Mention in the PISPA, Singles category
2024 Monochrome Photography Awards -1st Place - Amateur Street Photography
2024 Siena Photo Awards - street photography category 3rd place winner
2024 ReFocus Black and White award - 1st place, overall Non-Professional. + GOLD in the Street Photography genre
2024 Exposure One Award - Discovery of the Year 2024 & People's vote awards 2024
2024 Minimalist Photography Awards - Honourable Mention street category
2024 All About Photo - Black and White Winner Merit Awards
2024 Life Framer's - Winner Street Life Award
2023 IPA International Photography Awards - Honourable Mention
Publications & Interviews
2025 Bored Panda feature, “This Street Photographer Shows How ‘Nothing Newsworthy’ Can Be Truly Beautiful (31 Pics)”
2025 Digital Photographer Magazine, issue 288. Published as part of the winning photos in the 2024 ReFocus Black and White Contest
2025 Monochrome Photography Awards book, 11th edition, as part of winning photos of the awards
2024 Interview “Capturing Life’s in-between Moments with Karlynne Wintels” Street Photography Magazine Interview and Podcast, season 8.
2024 ‘Beyond the Lens’, photo book with collected winning photographs of the Siena Awards 2024
2024 All About Photo Black and White Magazine #41, 2024, as part of the winning photographs of the AAP B&W awards
Exhibitions
2025 Treviso Photographic Festival 2025 - Moment of Life Group Exhibition, 4/ 25 September
2025 Group exhibition at Magazzini Fotograficci, Naples as winner in the PISPA - Paris International Street Photography Awards, 18/ 21 September
2025 WorldWide Streets collective group exhibition in Hamburg, 24/ 27 July
2025 Headline exhibition at Dublin Street Photography Festival, 2/ 4 May
2024 ‘100 years 100 women’, Group street photography exhibition, Paris, France
2023 ’A Wall of Women by Women’ group exhibition at Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australia
2023 WomenStreetPhotographers group exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2022 Miami Street Photography Festival Finalists Group Exhibition, USA
2022 ‘A Thousand Words’ - OfLimitsCollective group exhibition - Dec 22 / Jan 23, Singapore
2021 WomenStreetPhotographers group exhibition - 29 August / 31 October
At the Marina Barrage
Kathmanu, Nepal
Siena Photo Awards 2024 - 3rd Place
Street Photography category
"Mirror mirror on the bike"
Amid the lively chaos of a bustling procession in Kathmandu, a quiet blue-walled alley offers a rare moment of stillness. Silhouettes of passersby drift by, painting the scene with fleeting motion. An elderly man appears, observing the festivities in silence, his reflection caught in the shine of a nearby motorcycle. For a brief moment, calm settles within the city’s whirlwind of energy.
Piercing Through the Crowds
An ongoing series dedicated to women that have been victim of domestic abuse. Women being pushed into isolation, forced into the background of life. Their identities and freedoms stolen.
Photo 1 in this series was a finalist in the Miami Street Photography Festival in 2022.
Tokyo 2023
Airports - an ongoing series
Art prints
All photographs are for sale in beautiful fine art paper print, framed with anti-reflective high-quality materials. Or go for an acrylic or metallic print, creating a minimalist, modern look.
A street photography print is a beautiful, modern and original gift for someone who might be leaving, or moving to, the country it was taken. It will give you a piece of art that is culturally relevant.
Framed artworks start at 200 SGD. Each order will receive personal advice on size and framing.
To order your art prints or for more information, please contact me.