Ore Huiying
Women Photograph
Singapore
Ore Huiying is a documentary photographer from Singapore. She was recently selected in the World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent Program. Apart from working on personal projects, Ore does commissioned work for international publications like Bloomberg, Le Monde newspaper, M magazine and Getty Images, as well as for NGOs and corporate clients.
Since 2010, Ore's photographic works have been exhibited in photo festivals, museums and galleries regionally and internationally. In 2013, she was nominated for ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu, a photography award in Singapore that honour photographers’ original vision and dedication to their craft. Most recently in 2018, she won the top honors of the Invisible Photographer Award for her series of an abandoned Chinese casino town in Laos.
Ore completed my Masters of Arts in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication in United Kingdom in 2010. After 3 years of working and living in London, she returned to Singapore, to focus her investigation of the progression of Southeast Asian societies.
2018 - World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent Program, 2018 - IPA Photo Award Documentary Category winner
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Ore Huiying
Laos signed a 30-year lease on 1640 hectare of land at Boten to a Chinese developer who built a city centered on an integrated casino-hotel. Boten will be the last stop along the proposed Laos highspeed railway before it enters into Mengla, China.
This series is about the Chinese-owned Golden City of Boten in Laos, bordering China. It was a casino boomtown during its heyday, attracting gamblers from China. Since the Chinese government closed down the casino, the town was quickly abandoned. Only a handful remain, hopeful that the town would be revived someday.
For more photos from the series, check out: https://phmuseum.com/orehuiying/story/the-golden-city-of-boten-e9967d7d74
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Ore Huiying
Laotian workers at a restaurant in border town of Boten wait for customers. Business is quiet at the abandoned town, yet optimism runs through the town now that the China-Laos railway has begun its construction.
For more photos from the series, check out: https://phmuseum.com/orehuiying/story/the-golden-city-of-boten-e9967d7d74
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Ore Huiying
Games booths lie abandoned outside a nightclub called Global Village in Boten. Before it closed down, the casino town of Boten attracted tourists from China and Thailand, where gambling is prohibited.
For more photos from the series, check out: https://phmuseum.com/orehuiying/story/the-golden-city-of-boten-e9967d7d74