CS2044 - Photojournalism
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University
2015 - Present

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This course is run as a practical landing pad for students to learn how to tell stories with photographs. Over 13 weeks, students work on documentary photo projects on issues like sexuality, gig-economy workers and fast-fashion.

We typically end the semester with a community exhibition. A particular memorable one was a two-day exhibition at the void-deck of the soon-to-be-demolished Rochor Centre.

CS4090 - Going Overseas For Advanced Reporting
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University
2012 - Present

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Probably the most gruelling journalism course at the school. Every summer, we select 14 students, do two weeks of intense prep, then fly off to work on a collective project on an issue(eg. Post-Tsunami Ishinomaki(2015), or the Ukrainian refugee situation in Germany(2022).

Students work on stories across different mediums. I supervise and lead the visual projects(films, photo essays, infographics, book design).

Our best stories have been published in The Straits Times, South China Morning Post ,Nepali Times and more. Some of the films also do decent runs at topical film festivals. 

Co-instructors:
Cherian George(2012), Hedwig Alfred(2013-2024), Tay Kay Chin(2012-2015) & Ian Tan(2025-Present).

DP3011 - Documentary Practices
School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University
2023 - Present

DP3011 is my teaching debut in an art school. Students in the course will learn to strike a balance between the ethical and operational boundaries of press-style documentary work and the infinite possibilities and interpretations of documentary practice. Watch this space!

CS4023 - Advanced Photojournalism
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University
2016 - Present

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One of my favourite courses to teach. We get a small classroom (10+ senior-year students) where we work on journalism/story-telling experiments.

Through the years, we have worked on weird and wonderful things like a VR game that tells a story about the Oxley Road-Lee Family Feud and an NFT project about internet addiction.

The now wildly-popular social media publisher Our Grandfather Story started as a class assignment in the first run of this course.

Final Year Projects
Nanyang Technological University
2017 - Present

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I have supervised seven final-year journalism and film projects. My students have worked on stories about green architecture, power lifters, gambling addiction and sucide care, etc.

The students produce books, feature journalism articles and documentaries after a year-long journey.       

The Astronauts Collective
Non-Profit
2017 - Present