Nguan was born and raised in Singapore. His photographs contemplate big city yearning, ordinary fantasies and emotional globalisation.

Monographs

Shibuya (2010)

How Loneliness Goes (2013)

Singapore (2017)

All the Dreamers (2025)

Press

Artforum

Critics’ Picks: “Comforter”

ArtReview

Nguan

Bloomberg

Singapore in Pastel

British Journal of Photography

“Photographing daily life is the purest challenge for a photographer”

The Business Times

‘I like to be lonely - in fact, I love it’

Channel News Asia

Instagram and beyond: Why Singaporean photographer Nguan’s images click

CNN

Photographer subverts Singapore’s ‘sterile’ reputation by capturing dream-like images of the city-state

Cultured

Director Lulu Wang Reveals the Photograph That Informed the Achingly Nostalgic Visual Language of 'Expats'

Daily Mail

Boulevard of broken dreams

Dazed

Capturing Singapore’s unassuming sex industry

Domus

Singaporean Brothels

Editorial Magazine

A Conversation with Nguan

Fast Company

A Peek At The Unassuming Brothels Of Singapore

Hyperallergic

Photographer Nguan Talks about the Myths and Realities of Singapore

Ignant

The Darker Reason Behind Nguan’s Photographic Yearning

It’s Nice That

A rare interview with enigmatic and cherished photographer, Nguan

LUXUO

Home Truly: Interview with Singaporean photographer Nguan

Matca

Reading Nguan In The Pandemic

Michigan Quarterly Review

Somewhere Unanticipated: An Interview with Nguan

Musée Magazine

The Pastels of Nguan's Singapore

The New Yorker

The Year in New Yorker Instagrams

The New York Times Magazine

The Best Photo Books of 2017

Popular Photography

New Books: Singapore in the Softest Light

Ravelin

The World According To Nguan

RICE

How Loneliness Goes: Nguan’s Singapore

Slate

The Quirky and Gritty Side of Los Angeles

The Straits Times

9 questions with Singaporean photographer Nguan who took over New Yorker Photo Instagram

Somewhere Magazine

Interview – Nguan

World Photo Organisation

Big city yearning, with Nguan