The cover page of today's my paper, a local free sheeter, with Eunice Chan's photos on the cover.
A young aspiring photographer is back for more back breaking work, walking all over suburban malls taking pictures of tenants who have chosen to open their retail shops at the heartlands.
Her name is Eunice Chan, 20, an undergraduate student at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information of Nanyang Technological University, a top journalism and media school in Asia.
News photography has proven to be challenging. For every shoot she covers, there is much thinking process of which sort of photo would qualify for the article. Communication is needed between the photographer and the writer in order for Ms Chan to find out what angle the writer is working on so that the cover photo would suit the article as much as possible.
Apart from brain juice, much physical strength is needed in a news photographer.
"Photography isn't as easy as it seems. For this cover, I have travelled all over the west of Singapore until my feet and back were so sore, but the gratification upon seeing my work on the cover made it all worthwhile," said Ms Chan.
Ms Chan mentioned that her full gear could weigh up between 6 to 8kg, and that there's really nothing called "travelling light" for a photographer like her.
Ms Chan also shoots for Nanyang Chronicle, a school publication for the NTU student body, and also the president for the Alumni Society of Meridian Junior College Photography Club.
