Sim Chi Yin Construction material - possibly "manufactured sand" which is crushed granite - comes in on a barge into Singapore's east coast, going past its Changi Airport, where an airplane had just taken off
(...) from. Singapore, which has reclaimed about 20 percent 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 neighbors 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 usable land area as its population increases. Singapore. 2017. From "Shifting Sands", 2017 — on-going. © Sim Chi Yin | Magnum Photos
