We're all set - the 40 photos are finally selected from the many entries that you have sent in over the past 3 months - all in all, there are 22 contributing photographers this year compared to 13 last year! Our adopted group, Cat Welfare Society, will be gracing our preview party on 20 May Tuesday evening at 7pm and showcasing some of their CWS brochures and selling their merchandise that night.
We hope to raise some funds for CWS via a sale of the gorgeous cat magnets (courtesy of Ferne) as well as the cat photos from this year's and last year's collections (each photo costs just S$50 and sale will be on a first-come-first-serve basis). All cheque proceeds go directly to CWS, so do support us! For more info, please contact me at sublime.carla@gmail.com
< A Big Thank You to our Sponsors >The Arts House -
www.theartshouse.com.sg Hewlett-Packard (HP) Singapore -
www.hp.com.sg P.S: It's a shame our framing sponsor has pulled out last minute. Better luck next year! If you wish to sponsor next year's show, let us know earlier!
Here are the 22 photographers:Alexandra Jen Wong is a student at ACS (Independent). Her favourite things include postcards and polaroids, the sound of the sea, and her typewriter. She longs for more drizzly days spent in the company of good books, as well as her two dogs and six cats.
Ashley Choo and her cat Baileys love each other to pieces even though it’s war everyday for them. If she points and laughs at him for sleeping awkwardly, he takes revenge by sleeping on her forehead the next morning. If she retaliates by introducing smelly socks to him, he will tumble and shed fur in her wardrobe.
Barnie Leow is a professional photographer and an avid fan of all things feline. Many of his photographs are featured in “The Real Singapore Cat”, a publication of the Cat Welfare Society. His other photographic works have also won honourable mention at international awards.
Brad Bertrand was born a cat person. A native of Canada, he has been living abroad for the past five years. Although teaching pays the bills, his true passions are photography and travelling. He thinks of his monster 8-kg kitty cat Odin in Toronto, just as much as his parents and friends. Visit www.flickr.com/photos/staticdynamic/
Carlyn Law is a PR consultant, part-time photojournalist and blogger who longs for her own organic farm in Italy where her three cats - Jarvis, Ripley and Mimi - can roam free. She relishes photography, travelling, food, cats and nature – usually all at once on her frequent voyages.
Chew Li Sie loves cats and started photographing local cats last year. For her photograph, she initially stumbled upon the two loving cats, which were her main focus, then ‘Third Party Cat’ entered the picture. She has since adopted the cat, FaFi, who is now happily settled in her new home.
Cristian Calangiu is an IT specialist from faraway Romania who has loved Asia as long as he can remember. He thinks he must have been Chinese in a previous life. He always loved dogs and lately has grown to love cats, thanks to a special friend. He hopes to get both a dog and a cat after he manages to move to his dreamland.
Dave Law currently is looking at life through different lens. He hopes to see the beautiful in the ordinary and vice versa. He also just started to explore the wonderful world of photography with his secondhand EOS400D and finds the opportunity to shoot whenever he can. He also often wonders why people treat animals better than they treat other humans.
Eunice Poh - photographer, musician and designer - draws inspiration from the workings and movements of daily life. She loves to play and talk to all the stray cats whenever they cross her paths. Harvey, her playful six-year-old cat, is her constant company for the hide-and-seek games at home.
Gay Sen Min is currently working part time while waiting to be matriculated into University. He takes pictures in his free time and aspires to be a professional photographer in future. He hopes to travel to third world countries on mission trips and capture images that will inspire and have an impact on people.
Joo Yau and Tara do not agree on everything. Tara loves cats while Joo Yau loves dogs. But they recently found a wonderful blend of their combined preferences in this suspiciously canine-like feline named Socks whom they’ve chosen to loosely adopt.
Ketan Shah picked up photography three years ago. He still has lots to learn but is having a great time learning it. In photographing stray cats, he saw facets of Singapore that we don't often see. He does not have any pets but often plays with his neighbour's cat, Duke Orange.
Kiera Roxanne - inspired by the captures of people like Boogie & Andy Mueller - is now more keen into capturing the emotions of people and street photography, ranging from kids smudging their faces with ice-creams to stray felines. Now she realizes her passion has become an addiction.
Ku and Meilam picked up two stray kittens on New Year’s Day of 2007. Xiao Huang, the male cat, is naughty and a big A$$ coward! Nonetheless, his mouth is pretty big when he yawns.
Little Ong is the design director of creative agency fFurious. In his spare time, Little likes to wander the streets to look for magic in the everyday, and the cats he encounters have certainly put their spell on him.
Lynn Gan is an internet marketing executive by day and a kitty chin scratcher by night. Once in a while, she takes time off to travel and see the rest of the world.
Noelle Tan is a cat lover who sadly does not own a cat - yet. That will soon change hopefully as she continues to appreciate the intrinsic elegant beauty of the feline species. This PR Consultant enjoys photography, cooking and travelling.
Rebecca Ho, a cat enthusiast, is active in running the Trap-Neuter-Release Management in her neighbourhood. Her new found hobby brought her to Pulau Ubin on a weekly basis. Over at the undeveloped island, she has befriended some of the native kampong cats and islanders.
Serena Teo is currently studying at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Since young, she has loved being with animals, and with the full support of her parents, her home became an adoption home to two dogs, three terrapins, two hamsters and a chinchilla. She misses her cat, Mao, who passed away.
Sharon Soh, a freelance writer/editor, enjoys photographing sleeping cats. “Cats are at their truest when they are asleep. That’s when they are totally at ease with themselves and environment, and they exude so much zen that you can’t help but feel a certain bliss just watching them snooze.” She and her husband Ben live with four cats and a mini pond of fishes.
Tetanus, author of A tiny blip in the continuum (http://atinyblip.wordpress.com/), is 30, male and very Cancerian. He lives for the resonance of beautiful passages, cinematic magic and aural bliss. He dabbles in writing, photography, sketching and daydreaming in his free time when he’s not directing TV ads.
Veronica J. Zuzarte loves all God’s beasts. Her dogs, King and Caesar, and cat Garfield lived to a ripe old age of 17, 4 and 18 years respectively and are still dearly missed. Her favourite quote is “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” by Mahatma Gandhi.
Ciao! The photo exhibition has sadly come to an end last weekend. Funnily we took so long to put it together and so fast it's over! That's why the organisers have decided to make it at least 3 weeks next year (tentatively in June). We are currently sourcing for venues and sponsors for more whacky framing / presentation ideas, so do contact us if you have any input! 
The preview party of 'Cats Of The World' was a success with a good turnout and support from the photographers, sponsors, and friends. We also managed to sell close to $300 worth of the cat photo magnets (courtesy of Ferne) - just $5 for 2, they will be on sale this Sunday at the Arts House from 3pm to 6pm. We also sold 5 photos at $50 each and hope to sell the rest within the next month.
Gorgeous cat photo magnets at just $5 for 2! Online sale can be made by emailing sublime.carla@gmail.com 
Special thanks to Michelle, Kailing and her team at Cat Welfare Society! 
Come view the exhibition at the Arts House!
We're all set - the 40 photos are finally selected from the many entries that you have sent in over the past 3 months - all in all, there are 22 contributing photographers this year compared to 13 last year! Our adopted group, Cat Welfare Society, will be gracing our preview party on 20 May Tuesday evening at 7pm and showcasing some of their CWS brochures and selling their merchandise that night. 
The idea of the exhibition first came about because a bunch of cat lovers realised they have a small collection of cat snapshots taken all over the world in exotic places such as Morocco, Italy, Turkey, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. And when we spread word about it, we got some lovely pictures of cats in Singapore too!
"Cats Of The World II' Photo Exhibition
What's New This Year:
The preview party went very well and judging by the photos taken of the event, you can see The Moomba @ Level 2 was pretty crowded. We'd like to thank The Moomba again who provided the refreshments and soft drinks for the evening, all the contributors and the media for their kind support. Today newspaper sent a photographer to cover it and ran a big story titled "Picture Purr-fect" on 2 August 2007, Thursday. 
In addition, it was featured as the top pick under Events by The Straits Times on 2 August, IS Magazine (3 August issue) and Shin Nichi Ho (Japanese, 2 August). Special thanks also go to AsiaOne.com, ClubPets, Frequent Traveller, Lifestyle, New Man, Wine & Dine and Time Out S'pore - grazie tutti! 
Ashley Choo was a writer but currently attempting to get back into the writing industry and so in the meantime, whiling away her time being a hobbyist photographer. In the event of a fire, the first things she will grab is, depending nearest object, her cat Baileys, camera and laptop. 
Dawn Kua is the only full time employee of the Cat Welfare Society (www.catwelfare.org) which promotes sterilisation and management of community cats as the best and most effective way of controlling the community cat population. For more information on Trap-Neuter-Return-Manage, visit her blog at www.catwelfare.blogspot.com
Lucinda Law is an assistant editor for a travel magazine in Hong Kong where she dreams about her 14-year-old tuxedo cat and gallant protector, Jarvis, in Singapore everyday. She is well-adjusted with many friends in HK but likes hanging around cats and is lately feeding feral cats in Victoria Park.
Rebecca Ho is a student who works part-time for Cat Welfare Society. As a strong believer in Trap-Neuter-Release Management, she actively promotes and practices TNRM in the neighbourhoods to humanely control the population of community cats. She loves traveling, reading and basketball. She shares her home with 2 calico cats.
