The personal seal that appears at the top of this website contains a schematic diagram of the pentaprism in a single-lens reflex camera. Every photograph, symbolized by the ray of light, passes through the pentaprism before the decision is made to open the shutter. The pentaprism is superimposed on a bisected circle representing the traditional split-prism focusing screen used in the old school of manual focus. (Design: Lin Yangchen)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
under the stage at National Day Parade 2016 for The Straits Times
Lin, Y. 2013. Tubographical transactions: a search for traces of the past. In López Galviz, C. & Merrill, S. eds. Going Underground: New Perspectives pp. 92–105. London Transport Museum.
cover photo (front and back), Going Underground: New Perspectives (2013)
London Transport Museum (limited edition)
London Underground feature in Singapore Airlines inflight magazine SilverKris, November 2013
London Underground feature in Digital SLR Photography (Malaysia edition), June 2013
photography for the film Hora Chilena (2013)
Scapegoat Productions
world premiere: Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 11 December
London premiere: Amnesty International, 14 December
cover photo, Bird Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions (2013)
by Williams, D. R. et al.
Pelagic Publishing
cover photo and contributing photographer, Heritage Places of Singapore (2009)
by Wan Meng Hao & Jacqueline Lau
Marshall Cavendish
Lin, Y. 2008. Freedom of expression: wildlife through curved glass.
Asian Geographic 58(8):22–25.
EXHIBITIONS
solo public exhibition unless otherwise stated
Anthropobiophysical Architecture (7 to 11 January 2017)
three extreme lenses: 11mm rectilinear ultrawide · 50mm f/1.0 ultrafast · MP-E 65 ultramacro
Pan Pacific Orchard, Singapore
as part of the Art Apart Fair, Singapore Art Week
London Underground Photo Exhibition
celebrating 150 years of the Tube (2013, 2014)
The Strand Gallery, central London
Old Examination Hall, University of Cambridge
Subway Gallery, Joe Strummer Subway, London
exhibition information, sponsors and international media
Augenblick (2014) 'blink of an eye'
long-term display at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
(at Queens' Arts Festival 2014)
contributed image within a larger collection exhibited in the mediæval Old Hall (1449), Queens' College, University of Cambridge (sponsored by Queens' College)
Aeronautical Observations (2013)
within a larger collection of themes by members of the Eikon Photographic Society, exhibited at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
(sponsored by Sidney Sussex College)
Rubbish (2013)
within a larger collection of themes by various photographers in the Sidney Exposed exhibition and at the Sidney Sussex Arts Festival, University of Cambridge
(sponsored by Sidney Sussex College)
an Anatomy of the Organ:
a Photographic Dissection of Pipe Organs at the University of Cambridge (2011)
image gallery
Cambridge is a pipe organ paradise, having possibly the highest concentration of organs in the world. To match the sheer number is a plethora of pure and hybrid organ building styles in which both English and Continental traditions from the Baroque to Contemporary periods are represented. Within any given instrument, there is in turn a bewildering profusion of organ pipes of all shapes and sizes, every single one of which is hand-made and ear-voiced to tonal perfection and harmony with every other pipe. Underpinning this breathtaking manifestation of musical art is an equally astounding superstructure of fine carpentry and precision engineering which ensures that the sound heard by the audience is not air rushing through metal tubes but great music communicated directly from the organist's mind.
(sponsored by the Photography and Illustration Service, University of Cambridge)
Primordial Light (2010, 2009)
Bukit Timah Nature Reserve and the Botanic Gardens, Singapore
(sponsored by the National Parks Board, Singapore)
Unpredictable Flying Objects (2009)
Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve and the Botanic Gardens, Singapore
(sponsored by the National Parks Board, Singapore)
Living Symphony: the Notes of the Score (2009)
solo exhibition at Yishun Public Library and within a larger collection of themes by various photographers at the National Library, Singapore
The natural world, like a Beethoven symphony, is a creation of simple and profound beauty despite the bewildering complexity of its components. In ways reminiscent of the dramatic interplay of musical instruments in polyphonic textures, living beings of diverse ancestry interact with each other in nature’s monumental masterpiece. In this series of images, creatures big and small, fast and slow trace out notes of the score as they go about their daily lives. An attempt is made to unify seemingly disparate entities by accentuating their ecological kinships in a kind of photographic symphony. As if in the execution of a fugue, one of the oldest musical forms, the number and structural variation of 'notes' increase progressively from one image to the next. The final photograph is inspired by the massive polyphonic coda of Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony, which unifies the hitherto separate musical ideas in a vertical juxtaposition of magnificent proportions. The photographic symphony, however, represents only a tiny part of the Living Symphony that is orders of magnitude longer, more intangible and more epic than any which mankind has yet composed.
(curated by Chris Yap, Light Editions Gallery, Singapore)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
Guest speaker, Wildlife and Natural History Photography course, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, 24 August 2013
The Science and Art of a Fish's Eye View of the World, Sidney Sussex College Graduate Conference, University of Cambridge, 17 March 2013
Tube = 2πr × h, London Underground 150th anniversary conference, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 17 January 2013