ONE DAY WE’LL UNDERSTAND

Sim Chi Yin | Singapore

This work takes Chi Yin’s family history as a point of departure and explores a hidden chapter of the Cold War in Asia: the leftist resistance of the Malayan Communists against the British colonial government from 1948 to 1960. Following her grandfather’s deportation trail, she studied the circumstances people– like her grandfather– found themselves in and their ideas, ideals and the choices they made at that time when the geopolitical intersected with the personal and familial, sometimes with tragic results.

This project was developed in our 2018 Photography Expanded: Counter-Histories lab.