Edwin Koo (www.edwinkoo.com), born in 1978 in Singapore. Currently based in Singapore and Malaysia, he is represented by ZUMA Press.
Good news, it infuses this issue with a sense of joy, and with an aspect of carefree childhood seized in flight. There is a feeling of solemnity, but a tender solemnity. An innocence that confronts the world, its difficulties and the trials of study, but it is amusing, happy, and touching.
For my personal project ‘Paradise Lost’, I have been photographing the Northwest of Pakistan since 2009, when conflict broke out and drove more than 3 million people from their home in Swat Valley.
