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`!Sim Chi Yin`! is an artist from `F33f`_`[Singapore`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Singapore]`_`f whose research-based practice includes photography, moving image, archival interventions, book-making and text-based performance, and focuses on history, conflict, memory and extraction.`:cite-ref-1[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-1]`_`f] She has exhibited in solo shows in Europe and Asia, and her work has been shown in biennales and triennials.

Sim did her first two degrees in `F33f`_`[Cold War`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Cold_War]`_`f history and was active in the migrant worker rights movement in Singapore — using photography and media for advocacy — before becoming an award-winning journalist and foreign correspondent based in China for over a decade. Currently, she is in New York as a fellow in the `F33f`_`[Whitney Museum`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Whitney_Museum]`_`f's Independent Study Program and is completing a PhD at `F33f`_`[King’s College London.`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=King's_College_London]`_`f

She is working on a multi-chapter project around her family history and the decolonization war in Malaya, “One Day We’ll Understand” — most recently shown at the `F33f`_`[Istanbul Biennale`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Istanbul_Biennial]`_`f 2022. Sim was commissioned as the `F33f`_`[Nobel Peace Prize`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Nobel_Peace_Prize]`_`f photographer in 2017. Her work is in the collections of `F33f`_`[Harvard Art Museums`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Harvard_Art_Museums]`_`f, `F33f`_`[The J. Paul Getty Museum`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=J._Paul_Getty_Museum]`_`f, `F33f`_`[M+ Hong Kong`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=M+]`_`f, `F33f`_`[Singapore Art Museum`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Singapore_Art_Museum]`_`f, and the `F33f`_`[National Museum Singapore`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=National_Museum_of_Singapore]`_`f. Sim is represented by Zilberman Gallery in Berlin and Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong.`:cite-ref-2[`F5bf`_`[2`#cite-note-2]`_`f]

>>Contents

• `F0af`_`[Life and work`#life-and-work]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[Publications by Sim`#publications-by-sim]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[Short films`#short-films]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[Awards`#awards]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[References`#references]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[External links`#external-links]`_`f

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>>Life and work

Sim was born in `F33f`_`[Singapore`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Singapore]`_`f. She read history and international relations at the `F33f`_`[London School of Economics`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=London_School_of_Economics]`_`f on a scholarship.`:cite-ref-bjp-seymour-3-0[`F5bf`_`[3`#cite-note-bjp-seymour-3]`_`f]

She worked as a print journalist and foreign correspondent at `*`F33f`_`[The Straits Times`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=The_Straits_Times]`_`f`* for nine years.`:cite-ref-time-ming-4-0[`F5bf`_`[4`#cite-note-time-ming-4]`_`f]`:cite-ref-time-laurent-2014-5-0[`F5bf`_`[5`#cite-note-time-laurent-2014-5]`_`f] In 2010 she quit to work full time as a photographer.`:cite-ref-time-ming-4-1[`F5bf`_`[4`#cite-note-time-ming-4]`_`f]`:cite-ref-time-laurent-2014-5-1[`F5bf`_`[5`#cite-note-time-laurent-2014-5]`_`f] Within four years she was working as a `F33f`_`[photojournalist`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Photojournalist]`_`f, getting regular assignments from `*`F33f`_`[The New York Times`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=The_New_York_Times]`_`f.`*`:cite-ref-time-laurent-2014-5-2[`F5bf`_`[5`#cite-note-time-laurent-2014-5]`_`f]

Her first major work was "The Rat Tribe", about blue-collar workers in Beijing.`:cite-ref-bjp-seymour-3-1[`F5bf`_`[3`#cite-note-bjp-seymour-3]`_`f]`:cite-ref-gup-6-0[`F5bf`_`[6`#cite-note-gup-6]`_`f] It has been published widely`:cite-ref-gup-6-1[`F5bf`_`[6`#cite-note-gup-6]`_`f] and was shown at `F33f`_`[Rencontres d'Arles`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Rencontres_d'Arles]`_`f in 2012.`:cite-ref-bjp-seymour-3-2[`F5bf`_`[3`#cite-note-bjp-seymour-3]`_`f]

Sim spent four years photographing Chinese gold miners living with the occupational lung disease `F33f`_`[silicosis`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Silicosis]`_`f, published in the photo essay "Dying To Breathe",`:cite-ref-7[`F5bf`_`[7`#cite-note-7]`_`f]`:cite-ref-8[`F5bf`_`[8`#cite-note-8]`_`f] much of it about He Quangui, also the subject of a short film.`:cite-ref-bjp-seymour-3-3[`F5bf`_`[3`#cite-note-bjp-seymour-3]`_`f]`:cite-ref-gup-6-2[`F5bf`_`[6`#cite-note-gup-6]`_`f]

She was commissioned as the `F33f`_`[Nobel Peace Prize`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Nobel_Peace_Prize]`_`f photographer in 2017 to make work about its winner, the `F33f`_`[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=International_Campaign_to_Abolish_Nuclear_Weapons]`_`f.`:cite-ref-elle-9-0[`F5bf`_`[9`#cite-note-elle-9]`_`f]`:cite-ref-10[`F5bf`_`[10`#cite-note-10]`_`f] Her photographs of similarities in landscapes related to nuclear weapons, both in the USA and along the China-North Korea border, were exhibited at the `F33f`_`[Nobel Peace Center`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Nobel_Peace_Center]`_`f museum in Oslo, Norway.`:cite-ref-bjp-seymour-3-4[`F5bf`_`[3`#cite-note-bjp-seymour-3]`_`f]

In 2014 she became an interim member of `F33f`_`[VII Photo Agency`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=VII_Photo_Agency]`_`f,`:cite-ref-time-laurent-2014-5-3[`F5bf`_`[5`#cite-note-time-laurent-2014-5]`_`f]`:cite-ref-11[`F5bf`_`[11`#cite-note-11]`_`f]`:cite-ref-12[`F5bf`_`[12`#cite-note-12]`_`f] a full member in 2016`:cite-ref-gup-6-3[`F5bf`_`[6`#cite-note-gup-6]`_`f] then left in 2017.`:cite-ref-bjp-seymour-3-5[`F5bf`_`[3`#cite-note-bjp-seymour-3]`_`f] In 2018 she became a nominee member of `F33f`_`[Magnum Photos`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Magnum_Photos]`_`f.`:cite-ref-13[`F5bf`_`[13`#cite-note-13]`_`f]`:cite-ref-14[`F5bf`_`[14`#cite-note-14]`_`f]

As of 2018 Sim was a PhD candidate on scholarship at `F33f`_`[King's College London`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=King's_College_London]`_`f, researching `F33f`_`[British Malaya`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=British_Malaya]`_`f.`:cite-ref-15[`F5bf`_`[15`#cite-note-15]`_`f] She is married to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer, `F33f`_`[Ian Johnson`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Ian_Johnson_(writer)]`_`f, and they have a son.

>>Publications by Sim

• `*The Long Road Home: Journeys Of Indonesian Migrant Workers.`* Jakarta: `F33f`_`[International Labour Organization`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=International_Labour_Organization]`_`f, 2011. `F33f`_`[ISBN`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=ISBN_(identifier)]`_`f 9789221249955.

• `*She Never Rode That Trishaw Again`*. Sim Chi Yin Studio, 2021. `F33f`_`[ISBN`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=ISBN_(identifier)]`_`f 9789811811449.`:cite-ref-16[`F5bf`_`[16`#cite-note-16]`_`f]

>>Short films

• `*Dying To Breathe`* (2015) – 10 minute film, directed and filmed by Sim

• `*Most People Were Silent`* (2017) – 3:40 minute film with audio soundscape, directed and filmed by Sim

>>Awards

• 2010: `F33f`_`[Magnum Foundation`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Magnum_Foundation]`_`f Social Justice and Photography fellowship at `F33f`_`[New York University`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=New_York_University]`_`f`:cite-ref-elle-9-1[`F5bf`_`[9`#cite-note-elle-9]`_`f]`:cite-ref-17[`F5bf`_`[17`#cite-note-17]`_`f]

• 2013: Finalist, W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography from the `F33f`_`[W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=W._Eugene_Smith_Memorial_Fund]`_`f`:cite-ref-elle-9-2[`F5bf`_`[9`#cite-note-elle-9]`_`f]`:cite-ref-18[`F5bf`_`[18`#cite-note-18]`_`f]

• 2014: `*`F33f`_`[Her World`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Her_World]`_`f`* Young Woman Achiever`:cite-ref-19[`F5bf`_`[19`#cite-note-19]`_`f]

• 2018: `F33f`_`[Chris Hondros`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Chris_Hondros]`_`f Award from `F33f`_`[Getty Images`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Getty_Images]`_`f and the Chris Hondros Fund`:cite-ref-elle-9-3[`F5bf`_`[9`#cite-note-elle-9]`_`f]`:cite-ref-20[`F5bf`_`[20`#cite-note-20]`_`f]`:cite-ref-21[`F5bf`_`[21`#cite-note-21]`_`f]

>>References

`:cite-note-1`!1.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-1]`_`f "Bio". `*sim chi yin`*. Retrieved 1 March 2023.

`:cite-note-2`!2.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-2]`_`f "Sim Chi Yin: Methods Of Memory – Time Travels in the Archives • Asia Art Archive in America". Retrieved 1 March 2023.

`:cite-note-bjp-seymour-3`!3.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-bjp-seymour-3-0]`_`f "Sim Chi Yin investigates the Fallout – British Journal of Photography". `*`F33f`_`[British Journal of Photography`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=British_Journal_of_Photography]`_`f`*. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

`:cite-note-time-ming-4`!4.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-time-ming-4-0]`_`f `:citerefming2015`aMing, Ye (5 June 2015). "How PDN's 30 Influenced Photographers Over the Years". `*Time`*. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

`:cite-note-time-laurent-2014-5`!5.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-time-laurent-2014-5-0]`_`f `:citereflaurent2014`aLaurent, Olivier (9 July 2014). "Sim Chi Yin Joins VII Photo as an Interim Member". `*Time`*. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

`:cite-note-gup-6`!6.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-gup-6-0]`_`f `:citerefx-publishers`ax-publishers. "A Subtle Place: An Interview with Sim Chi Yin". GUP Magazine. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

`:cite-note-7`!7.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-7]`_`f "Do the Right Thing: Sim Chi Yin on Ethical Choices". `*PDN Online`*. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

`:cite-note-8`!8.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-8]`_`f `:citerefxiaobin2016`aXiaobin, Neo (30 January 2016). "Singapore photojournalist Sim Chi Yin driven by sense of social justice". `*The Straits Times`*. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

`:cite-note-elle-9`!9.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-elle-9-0]`_`f "La storia audace di Sim Chi Yin, la fotografa da Nobel per la Pace che riflette sul nucleare senza mezzi termini". `*ELLE`*. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

`:cite-note-10`!10.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-10]`_`f `:citereffumiko-tay2017`aFumiko Tay, Tiffany (9 December 2017). "First Singaporean Nobel Peace Prize photographer Sim Chi Yin creates nuclear exhibition". `*The Straits Times`*. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

`:cite-note-11`!11.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-11]`_`f "Sim Chi Yin Joins VII as Member Photographer". `*viiphoto.com`*. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

`:cite-note-12`!12.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-12]`_`f `:citerefmigration2014`amigration (10 July 2014). "Newly minted VII photographer Sim Chi Yin's selected works". `*The Straits Times`*. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

`:cite-note-13`!13.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-13]`_`f "Magnum Photos' international new wave of Nominees – British Journal of Photography". `*`F33f`_`[British Journal of Photography`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=British_Journal_of_Photography]`_`f`*. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

`:cite-note-14`!14.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-14]`_`f "Updates from the 2018 Magnum Photos Annual General Meeting". `*`F33f`_`[Magnum Photos`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Magnum_Photos]`_`f`*. 26 June 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

`:cite-note-15`!15.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-15]`_`f "Nobel Peace Prize photographer on a roll". `*The Straits Times`*. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2019.

`:cite-note-16`!16.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-16]`_`f "New Book – "She Never Rode That Trishaw Again"". `*sim chi yin`*. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2023.

`:cite-note-17`!17.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-17]`_`f "Photography and Human Rights". `*Magnum Foundation`*. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

`:cite-note-18`!18.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-18]`_`f "Announcements". `*W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund`*. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

`:cite-note-19`!19.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-19]`_`f "Young Woman Achiever 2014 Sim Chi Yin – Her World Woman of The Year". `*`F33f`_`[Her World`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Her_World]`_`f`*. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

`:cite-note-20`!20.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-20]`_`f `:citerefestrin2018`aEstrin, James (25 April 2018). "Sim Chi Yin, a Patient Photographer, Wins Chris Hondros Award". `*The New York Times`*. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

`:cite-note-21`!21.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-21]`_`f "Sim Chi Yin Wins 2018 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award". `*PDNPulse`*. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

>>External links

• Official website

• "Singapore life through the lens of a photojournalist – video"

• `*Dying To Breathe`* – 10 minute film on Vimeo

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