{"id":690,"date":"2015-04-02T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2015-04-02T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:41:01","slug":"singapore-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Singapore: Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-691\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-691 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/transit1.jpg\" alt=\"transit1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/transit1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/transit1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/transit1-199x133.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwin Koo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Transit is a project\u00a0based on the intra-city railway system in Singapore, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). Built in 1987, it is used by 2.8 million people daily. Using photography, the author paints a collective portrait of commuters, capturing the daily theatre that\u00a0the eye fails to see.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-692 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/transit2.jpg\" alt=\"transit2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/transit2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/transit2-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/transit2-199x45.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8222;As commuters today, we distract ourselves endlessly with our smartphones or iPads, to anaesthetise ourselves from the unnatural and uncomfortable experience of transit. We create private spaces for ourselves in the most public of spaces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">As commuters, we observe an unspoken rule not to stare at each other\u2019s misery.\u00a0As a photographer, I broke that last rule twice over \u2013 I recorded the stare, and continue to be amazed by what the stare reveals&#8220;.\u00a0(by Edwin Koo)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The book will be launched at the National Museum of Singapore on 7 April, 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transit.photo\/#about\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.transit.photo\/#about<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transit is a project\u00a0based on the intra-city railway system in Singapore, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). Built in 1987, it is used by 2.8 million people daily. Using photography, the author paints a collective portrait of commuters, capturing the daily theatre that\u00a0the eye fails to see.\u00a0 &#8222;As commuters today, we distract ourselves endlessly with our &#8230; <a title=\"Singapore: Transit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=690\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Singapore: Transit\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}