American photographer Christopher Makos, and good friend of Andy Warhol opens up about traveling to China with Warhol in the early 80s, his friendship with Ai Wei Wei and why smart phones will never replace photographers. His exhibition, titled ‘Andy in China’, featuring over 40 images of the artist in and about Beijing has also just wrapped up in Shanghai..

Read more about it here.

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.