CS2006; counting the costs

Video: Replacement

Our Final Project

Over the course of our project, we decided to narrow our focus on foreign workers to foreign domestic helpers. Their contributions to our nation in bridging the gap left by the many working parents in Singapore are indispensable. Focusing instead on the individual who stands for so much more than…

Separation

We intentionally divided the elements into the foreground and background, primarily to create distance and disparity between them. Apart…

Small room

The shot was intentionally taken from a high angle. This makes the foreign domestic helper appear smaller, and causes the shelves…

Phone cards

Phone cards are indexical signs for foreign or long distance calls, which would be a typical foreign domestic helper’s most common method…

Gate

Foreign domestic helpers in Singapore are known for their homemaking roles, and gates are ubiquitous with homes, where they spend most of their time…

Visual Research; to those who sacrifice silently

Visual research, the contribution of the foreign workers in Singapore.

In Singapore, there exists a social stigma that isolates foreign workers from the rest of Singapore. We see them as outsiders, who have willingly come to Singapore to make their living, and therefore it makes…

Visual research; the contributions of foreign workers

This idea aims to call attention to individuals…