One of Singapore’s most notable artist and photographer, John Clang debunks talk of him being sentimental, the nature of commercial photography and the delicate balancing of his own art in this candid interview with Esquire magazine.

Having had a solo show earlier this year at the National Museum of Singapore, where he displayed a staggering series of works documenting families and kinship, the man honors his craft with a sensitiveness and integrity that well reminds us of the Heroic Artisan..

Hear it from the man himself here.