Tropical Reading 2 Preview - Books as their Medium

As a continuation of Tropical Reading: Photobook & Self-Publishing, Fotobook DUMMIES Day launched the second phase of its artistic research, expanding its scope to four new cities in Southeast Asia: Bandung, Phnom Penh, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
In this preview edition, we are featuring four new interviews centered around two art book fairs in Southeast Asia: the Singapore Art Book Fair-the region's earliest and the Kuala Lumpur Art Book Fair, freshly past its fifth year.

We then turn to two artists and bookmakers-Lee Chang Ming, based in Singapore, and Pam Virada, who works between Bangkok and Amsterdam-whose practices move from images to paper and into physical space. Shaped by years of gradual transformation and reflection, their work invites a slow, lingering gaze.