Connexscions Volume III Issue 01 Aug - Nov 2006 - WKWSCI Home

What Do They
Mean
to You
By Gladys Wong
Love
Communication
Photos by Ms Elizabeth Teo
Strangers
Through her pictures, Ms Elizabeth Teo, a final
year student, wanted to convey her view that
love is most genuine, simple and pure in a family.
Yet, in a fast-paced material world where
individualism takes centre stage, family affection is
becoming taken for granted, and thus neglected.
Photos by Mr Winson Teo (top) and Ms Margareta Astaman (below)
Four photojournalism students were challenged to use photos to express what the
essence of Communication, Love and Strangers means to them. These are some
of their ideas.
Strolling along the beach, Elizabeth captured these
moments of love between a parent and his child,
and between two young siblings approaching a
stray cat.
Communication is the central focus and theme of SCI students’ studying experience.
The process of communication involves many media, tools and signals. But when
translated to one’s daily living, what does this word “communication” mean to you
For final year student Mr Winson Teo, the way The Body Shop symmetrically laid out
stalls at a local shopping mall was a purposeful way of communicating their
anniversary promotional sale to shoppers and passers-by. He was impressed by the
creativity put in and was certain that anyone walking along the upper levels would
have been drawn to the sale.
W
ho are the strangers in your life
Ms Jean Loo, a final year journalism
student, captured images of two ordinary
people she would have normally walked past without
offering much of a glance. By slowing down and
taking the time to get to know them, she found out
one of them is an 80-year-old money changer, the
other, a Big Sweep ticket seller.
The message Ms Margareta Astaman wanted to highlight, however, was that
communication is everywhere. While an obvious approach may have been to focus on
human communication, Margareta was drawn to ants.
The third year journalism student said: “Ants have always been known for their ability
to communicate and coordinate their work; and ants are everywhere.”
Photos by Ms Jean Loo
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