A photography exhibition on the cemeteries in different perspective.
Sharon Cheah Ui-Hoon, 41, is from Penang, and has been a journalist (Lifestyle section) for The Business Times Singapore since 2000. Before that, she cut her teeth on reporting at The Star (1994-1998). Sharon is an old girl of Union High School (but can't write in Chinese beyond a few sentences, much to the dismay of her Chinese teachers), and had furthered her studies in US and UK.
For Sharon, her interest in cemeteries started as tourist snapshots taken during her travels. Most tour itineraries included monuments and memorials of famous people and as Sharon looked through her photo collection she realized that it was the photographs of the various cemeteries that she found really interesting. Ultimately, this is a photographic travelogue, but one that points the lens at how people in different cultures bury and remember their dead.
*Descriptions from Penang Heritage Trust (PHT).
