Page 14 - NAFA Annual Report 2014/2015

Convocation

785 graduates and their guests were invited to the NAFA
Convocation held over two sessions at the University Cultural Centre,
National University of Singapore. Minister for Communications and
Information, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, graced the morning session as the
Guest-of-Honour, while the afternoon session was officiated by
Mr Tay Guan Hin, Regional Executive Creative Director of Southeast Asia
& Global Executive Creative Director of JWT Singapore.

19 students were recognised with the Best Graduate Award
and among them were Wong Qin Kai, Bachelor of Music (Hons)
and Goh Jia Yin, Diploma in Dance who added another feather
to their caps by winning the Embassy of Peru Award and the
NAFA President’s Award respectively. Not forgetting NAFA alumni,
the Distinguished Alumni Medal was also presented to Dr Susie Lingham,
Director of Singapore Art Museum and Dr Zechariah Goh Toh Chai,
Head of Composition Studies at NAFA.

1.

Nadav Kander:
49 Works

NAFA hosted a month-long solo exhibition by Nadav Kander,
a world-renowned contemporary master photographer. Born in
1961 in Israel, the London-based Kander has won accolades for
his photography, one of which is the prestigious Prix Pictet (2009)
for his famed series, Yangtze, The Long River. The exhibition also
featured works from the Chernobyl and Dust series, both powerful
narratives of modern ruin, mortality and human vulnerability.

Quiet and intimate, Kander’s works are an expression of his self and
a reflection of human history. Each photograph is a unique product
of his feelings at the point of capture and framed with his distinctive
2. composition. Each photograph also invites the viewer in and
allows for their own interpretation.