Tag: Malaysia

• portals #3

  Seville, May 2018 1 Singapore 2–5 Johor Bahru 6 Penang June 2022 Madrid, May 2018 Penang, June 2022 Seville, May 2018 Penang, June 2022 Madrid, May 2018

  dereksayer

  July 15, 2025

  architecture, cities, murals, posters, shop windows, street photography

  Johor Bahru, Madrid, Malaysia, Penang, Seville, Singapore

• portals #2

  Mexico City, May 2025 Singapore, June 2022 Mexico City, May 2025 Penang, June 2022 Mexico City, May 2025

  dereksayer

  July 14, 2025

  adverts, architecture, cafés, cities, people, shop windows, street photography

  Malaysia, Mexico City, Penang, Singapore

• unexpected encounters #16: envoi

  Il faut confronter des idées vagues avec des images claires. Jean-Luc Godard, in La Chinoise commentary We were staying at the Hyatt Centric hotel in Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia, overlooking the South China Sea.  The sunsets there are renowned.  As I stepped out from our twentieth-story air-conditioned room onto the balcony to capture the scene,…

  dereksayer

  April 1, 2024

  cities, hotels, landscape, seas, skies

  Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Sabah

• Penang #3

  All images shot in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, June 2022

  dereksayer

  September 11, 2023

  architecture, cafés, cities, murals, street photography

  Malaysia, Penang

• Penang #2

  All images shot in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, June 2022

  dereksayer

  September 3, 2023

  architecture, cafés, cities, food, markets, murals, night, people, restaurants, street photography

  Malaysia, Penang

• cafés #1

  broadly defined, to include food courts, diners, hawker stalls, food trucks, and street food establishments of all kinds … New York, January 2015 Johor Bahru, February 2016 Siem Reap, February 2016 Hanoi, February 2016 #1–4 Hanoi #5–6 Saigon February 2016 Calgary, December 2016

  dereksayer

  August 25, 2023

  Americana, cafés, Canadiana, cities, food, people, street photography

  Calgary, Cambodia, Hanoi, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, New York, Saigon, Siem Reap, Vietnam

• Penang #1

  All images shot in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, June 2022

  dereksayer

  August 25, 2023

  architecture, cafés, cities, food, graffiti, markets, murals, people, street photography

  Malaysia, Penang

• redder yet

  1-2 Tokyo, September 2011 #3 Calgary #4-6 Mexico City, February 2018 #1-2 Mexico City, February 2018 #3 New York City, January 2011 #4 + 6 Johor Bahru, February 2023 #5 Singapore, February 2023 #1 Siem Reap, February 2016 #2-6 Mexico City February 2018 all remaining images Mexico City, February 2018

  dereksayer

  August 13, 2023

  adverts, architecture, artworks, cities, colors, exhibitions, markets, modernism, museums, people, shop windows, street photography

  Calgary, Cambodia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Mexico City, New York, Siem Reap, Singapore, Tokyo

• are, bure, boke #4

  Tokyo, September 2011 #1–2 Mexico City, February 2018 #3 Singapore, February 2016 4–6 Johor Bahru, February 2016 Hanoi, February 2016 Frankfurt, March 2016 #1–4 Frankfurt #5–6 Berlin March 2016 Berlin, March 2016

  dereksayer

  July 21, 2023

  artworks, cafés, cities, markets, monuments, museums, night, people, posters, reflections, street photography, trains

  Berlin, Frankfurt, Hanoi, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Mexico City, Singapore, Tokyo, Vietnam

• sing the city electric

  Electricity poles, wires, and cables are an essential part of the modern urban environment, giving it shape as well as bringing light. Mostly they go unnoticed and unphotographed. Here are some exuberant examples. I borrow the title of this post from Faris Joraimi’s essay “I Sing the City Electric: Modern Singapore Envisioned in Popular Malay…

  dereksayer

  June 11, 2023

  adverts, cities, geometries, landscape, people, posters, street photography

  Cambodia, Hanoi, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Mexico City, Siem Reap, Tokyo, Vietnam