Shaped to mimick an Ancestor Tablet, this publication explores the Singapore's Chinese death trade industry. “We Live to Die” plays on how my interviewee’s jobs are related to death yet it is their livelihood.
64pp, Hard Cover, Japanese Nylon Bind, Accordion Fold, Photography Spreads
This publication includes: Articles about how embalming of the deceased works, paper incense art;
1 spread of full chants by the buddhist monks & taoist priests.
Interviews with towkays (it means boss in chinese dialect) of 2 different funeral parlour; 4 spreads of photography documentation; and many more