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The Walk (2012)

Ernest Goh

Limited edition of 10
Archival pigment print
50 x 60 cm
2012
EG001
Reared and roomed by dedicated owners for participation in pageants, ornamental chickens, including the impressive Malaysian breed of Ayam Serama, project a natural and seemingly effortless charisma rivalling that of human models.

Ernest Goh’s award-winning portraits capture the full range of these beautiful birds’ personalities: puffed chests, ruffled plumage, bowed heads and all. By turns provocative, humorous and surprising, the photographs in Cocks will move you to view our humble feathered friends in an entirely different light.
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Ernest Goh

Ernest Goh is an artist and photographer based in Singapore. His current fine art photography work on the natural world is inspired by his childhood spent wading in the streams of his grandmother's rural village looking for fishes. He has also worked closely with non-profit organizations in documenting important events in Asia, including Altered Land on the aftermath and recovery from the 2004 Tsunami in Aceh, for which the series was awarded the 2012 ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu Discernment Award in Singapore.

 

Goh's portraits of animals include those of ornamental fish bred in Singapore, juvenile orangutans in a rescue centre in Sumatra, and chickens bred for beauty pageants in Malaysia. The wave of a wing or fin, the flick of a tail and the cock of a head are captured by Goh, evoking human-like characteristics that a casual observer would not be able to immediately see. Indeed, the temperament and attitudes of the animals exude from the portraits, particularly in their facial expressions, pushing the boundaries established by humans in differentiating themselves from the animal world. Through the photographer's lens, we see characters that are familiar in faces that are unexpected.

 

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The Walk

Stock No: EG001