Collaboration and Process
Date
April 4 2026 (Saturday)
4PM to 5:15PM
Location
Shop–House by DECK
About
This session brings together Huda (Your Local Newsstand), Jamie Png (PPIPPIPRESS), and Ryan Lim Zi Yi (BACKYARD) in a conversation facilitated by Alvin Ng. Focusing on engagement and collaboration, the discussion will explore how independent publishers and print practitioners work with others across disciplines, communities, and networks to shape their projects.
They will also reflect on the role of materials, shared resources, and collective practices in sustaining independent publishing, as well as how collaboration can support community-building within the broader print and publishing ecosystem.
They will also reflect on the role of materials, shared resources, and collective practices in sustaining independent publishing, as well as how collaboration can support community-building within the broader print and publishing ecosystem.
Featuring
Jamie Png (PPIPPIPRESS)
Speaker
Jamie Png is a Singapore-based photographer exploring the tenderness of being, the melancholy of time, and fleeting moments that feel both intimate and vast. She photographs quiet landscapes and everyday sights, drawn to moments that are gentle, bittersweet, and quietly powerful. With a background in graphic design, she naturally turns to photobooks as cinematic sequences, blending photography, layout, and print to create immersive narratives. She has self-published White Lover and Apricity, and co-runs PPIPPIPRESS, an independent press making artist books and zines. Her work continues to explore the nakedness of memory and the impermanence of time.
Huda (Your Local Newsstand)
Speaker
Huda Azzis is a Singapore-based documentary video editor and publisher with over a decade of experience working across broadcast and online media. Alongside her work in film and television, she has cultivated a strong practice in independent publishing, driven by a long-standing fascination with photography and zine culture. What began as a personal interest in collecting zines eventually evolved into the creation of Your Local Newsstand - an independent publishing group specialising in producing and publishing photography based imprints.
Your Local Newsstand is an independent publishing group based in Singapore specialising in producing and publishing photography based imprints. Our goal is to provide a platform for photographers to explore photography through the medium of zines and other printed matters. On its own, zines and photography are both visual formats. By combining these two formats together, photozines become something special for both the creator and the audience. Just like how a photography project exist differently in a physical exhibition or in a moving image, zines - they exist in your hands. By merging, colliding and making zines and photography exist with and within each other, it is well in our motto to keep prints in your hands.
Your Local Newsstand is an independent publishing group based in Singapore specialising in producing and publishing photography based imprints. Our goal is to provide a platform for photographers to explore photography through the medium of zines and other printed matters. On its own, zines and photography are both visual formats. By combining these two formats together, photozines become something special for both the creator and the audience. Just like how a photography project exist differently in a physical exhibition or in a moving image, zines - they exist in your hands. By merging, colliding and making zines and photography exist with and within each other, it is well in our motto to keep prints in your hands.
Ryan Lim Zi Yi (BACKYARD)
Speaker
Ryan Lim Zi Yi (b. 1996, Singapore) explores the quiet rhythms of the unspectacular through his installations of images, sculpture, and text. His practice draws from moments and encounters—what lingers in the background of public and private spaces. Working with ordinary materials and subtle gestures, he reconfigures these traces into narratives and forms that feel both familiar and distant, revealing the unnoticed as tender, uncertain, and worth remembering.
His works have been exhibited internationally, including at Carp Gallery (Taiwan), Plague Space (Russia), and LivingRoom (Netherlands); and in Singapore with Whitestone Gallery, Temporary Unit, DECK, I_S_L_A_N_D_S, Comma Space, Objectifs, DECK. His recent curatorial projects include Robin (2022-2023), a series of exhibitions presented in camping tents pitched in various locations across
Singapore. Currently, he runs a curatorial project titled, BACKYARD, a 7 volume subscription-based publication housing artists reports of happenings around Singapore. BACKYARD is an idea for an art space in the form of a folder.
His works have been exhibited internationally, including at Carp Gallery (Taiwan), Plague Space (Russia), and LivingRoom (Netherlands); and in Singapore with Whitestone Gallery, Temporary Unit, DECK, I_S_L_A_N_D_S, Comma Space, Objectifs, DECK. His recent curatorial projects include Robin (2022-2023), a series of exhibitions presented in camping tents pitched in various locations across
Singapore. Currently, he runs a curatorial project titled, BACKYARD, a 7 volume subscription-based publication housing artists reports of happenings around Singapore. BACKYARD is an idea for an art space in the form of a folder.
