Charmaine Poh is a Singaporean-Chinese photographer and artist whose work concerns memory, gender, youth, and solitude. Based in Singapore but frequently on the road, she is dedicated to unfolding narratives across Asia. She has made work on class divide in Bangladesh, women in a transitioning Burma, and LGBTQ rights in Cambodia. Her latest personal projects focus on young adulthood in Singapore.
Born in 1990, she graduated with a B.A. in international relations from Tufts University in 2013, where she was also a student in the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice. This fall, she will be pursuing an M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Freie Universitat Berlin.