I have been a photographer for many years now, and to be honest, it has not always been fun. No career path is without its ups and downs, and certainly, the creative industry is no different. As a Singaporean photographer, it’s quite an interesting journey.

Sometimes, you just have to take on the bread and butter jobs even if you feel like your soul is dying on the inside. However, just like in every industry there is always that creative and fun job and I was fortunate to get jobs like them. Every now and then an opportunity comes along where you enjoy every bit of it and still get paid. That last part is nuts huh? The best shoot and the best job is one where you feel fulfilled and can truly say that you are being paid to do what you love.

For this shoot for The New Paper, New Look campaign, the concept was "Breakthrough" where the girls literally break through a barrier. We had a paper artist come in during the shoot to arrange the cut for the background. Why you might ask? First of all, he is a professional and perhaps most importantly because I certainly wasn't going to be responsible for ruining the backdrop! Forget doing it myself, just listening to the tear of the backdrop paper was painful for me.

We had two different color backdrops for each image and placed the darker one behind. That way the lighter backdrop gets well lit due to the distance from the source light and the darker one gets even darker. This helped to achieve a bigger contrast between the front and the back backdrops.