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An anonymous photographer once said," One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photos out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photos out of focus are a style." Indeed, there can be no right or wrong in photography.

Jonathan started out photography as a hobby during his days at the Singapore Polytechnic. As a design-trained student, he is constantly on the look-out for unique composition and subjects.

Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, President of the Soka Gakkai International, and Robert Capa are the 2 main people who have influenced him greatly in the pursue of photography.

Sharing the same passion and aspiration with his mentor in life, Jonathan's vision in photography is to produce photographs that speak for themselves and to tell an untold story.

Believing that nothing in this world is without a decisive moment, he is always on the move for new subjects in different environment. The challenge to capture the decisive moment keeps the passion burning. To him, photography is an immediate reaction. It is a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever-attentive eye, which captures the moment and its eternity.

Based in Singapore, Jonathan has established his credibility with the unique style of photography and personable approach. He is constantly pushing his limits and works to the level of art.

Jonathan shoots for the Singapore Press Holdings chinese flagship daily Lianhe Zaobao as a full-time photographer.

www.jonyeap.com

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~ Photography is finally escaping any dependence on what is in front of a lens, but it comes at the price of its special claim on a viewer's attention as "evidence" rooted in reality.

As gallery material, photographs are now essentially no different from paintings concocted entirely from an artist's imagination, except that they lack painting's manual touch and surface variation.

As the great modern photographer Lisette Model once said, "Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest." She had no idea how easy exotic effects would get, and just how hard that would make it to capture beauty and truth in the same photograph.

The next great photographers—if there are to be any—will have to find a way to reclaim photography's special link to reality. And they'll have to do it in a brand-new way.~