Portrait of William needed — 1600×2000
About
William enjoys telling stories with his camera.
That sentence has been on his website for over a decade, and it is still the most accurate thing anyone has written about him.
William Chua is a Singapore-based photographer whose work runs from the intimate to the immense — a bride’s hand on a bannister, a newborn asleep in a parent’s palm, a river crossing on the Mara, dunes at Sossusvlei at the moment the shadow line breaks. He has been photographing professionally for three decades and has been recognised internationally more than three hundred times.
He has been a Fujifilm X-Photographer for ten years, working directly with Fujifilm Singapore and Japan HQ, and has led small-group photographic expeditions since 2010 — sixteen consecutive seasons in Kenya alone. His fine art work is represented in the United States by Modern Art Etc of Los Angeles.
300+
International awards
10
Years Fujifilm X-Photographer
16
Seasons on the Masai Mara
30+
Countries photographed
Recognition
Selected awards and rankings.
A full list of three hundred-odd awards would be unreadable. These are the ones worth knowing about.
2024
World’s Top 10 Wildlife Photographers — international ranking
2022
World’s Top 10 Travel Photographers — international ranking
2022
Singapore’s Top 10 Street Photographers — Rank #2 — national ranking
2014
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris — Gold, Wildlife — Paris, France
Multiple
WPPI — Wedding & Portrait Photographers International — print competition awards
Multiple
Rangefinder Magazine — Wedding Contest Winner — United States
Ongoing
Fujifilm X-Photographer — ten years with Fujifilm Singapore and Japan HQ
Ongoing
Represented by Modern Art Etc — fine art prints · Los Angeles, USA
Approach
Three things worth saying plainly.
Natural first.
Posed only where posing helps. Most of what is worth keeping happens in the gaps between the planned shots.
Small groups only.
Expeditions are capped so that everyone gets a window seat, and so that instruction means something.
Print it.
A photograph that lives only on a phone has not finished being made yet.