Woong Soak Teng: Ways to Tie Trees: Steidl Book Award Asia 2017

Woong Soak Teng explores the garden city of her native Singapore, making portraits of its staked trees, which have been uprooted and relocated to conform to a cityscape determined by urban planning. Teng’s consistent, frontal approach and detailed captions based on the trees’ locations lend her works a topographical quality.