CHF celebrates the intelligence, rigor, and compassion that Sim Chi Yin embeds in her photojournalistic endeavors. We are thrilled to welcome her to the CHF family. Chi Yin’s keen sense and deep knowledge of the locations, cultures, and subjects she covers are akin to the immense preparation Hondros undertook to learn not only the current state of affairs, but the historical context of the people, conflict, and regions he covered.
Sim Chi Yin (b. 1978, Singapore) focuses on history, memory, conflict, and migration and their consequences through the mediums of photography and new media.
Chi Yin was the Nobel Peace Prize photogra- pher for 2017. Her photo and video work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and photo and film festivals in Asia, the United States and Europe. These include the Istanbul Biennale in 2017, the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Photoville in New York, the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, the Tom Blau gallery in London, and the Arko Art Center and Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in South Korea. She does commissioned work for global publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker and Harper’s.
Chi Yin read history at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
She is from Singapore and has been based in Beijing for the past decade. She works with photography, film, sound, text and archival material. She is researching a book on the early Cold War that tells the story of her grandfather, his compatriots and their anti-colonial battle in British Malaya, and she is working on a global project on sand.
