Sim Chi Yin SINGAPORE. 2017. From "Shifting Sands", 2017 - on-going.
Construction material - possibly "manufactured sand" which is crushed granite - comes in on a barge into Singapore's east coast, going p
(...) ast its Changi Airport, where an aeroplane had just taken off from. Singapore, which has reclaimed about 20 per cent of its land from the sea since independence in 1965, is continually short of sand these days, after buying the resource from its Southeast Asian neighbours for years. It is trying to use alternatives and coming up with ways of construction that use less sand. As a land-strapped coastal city, Singapore tries for solutions to expand its useable land area as its population increases. © Sim Chi Yin | Magnum Photos
