Black & White Fest at Annexe, CM

Seems like everything at the Annexe is now called a festival. :)

This one was not quite a festival, more a sombre ode to nice photos, preserved for austerity in monochrome.

In fact, the actual photo section was just one of three parts of the festival; Diversity, Constitutional Amendments and Wayang Kita-kita, respectively.

• Diversity featured the work of 10 Malaysian photographers. The people who run the place, Lim Hock Seng and Pang Khee Teik, also featured in the exhibition, although one has to stretch to imagine them as photographers, per se, a bit like Bernice Chauly, who by most accounts is a writer-cum-poet. The 7 other names featured were rather unknown, therefore it was uncertain if they too were known as anything but photographers in a previous life.
  The images were quite esthetically pleasing, if not provocative, as festivals in the Annexe tend to be. The prices were not quite a bargain, RM 500 up to RM 4000, but the prints were one-off pieces. I quite liked one with a family road-trip theme and Khee Teik's print, displayed in the overhead platform.
  
  
• Wayang Kita-kita seemed to be a pretty simplistic line-up of posters. On closer inspection, however, one could feel for the endeavour taken to source the stills from old Malay movies, some of which had been lost in time. Full marks for value.
  
  
• The Constitutional Amendments section was a text installation, featuring some of the 600-700 changes in the Malaysian Constitution since independence. The feature was interactive in that it wanted the audience to post little green stickers on the parts they preferred, either the unamended or amended part. It was an imaginative little row, but smudged by misspelled words.
  A little feature in the corner was a quite nice touch, one that marks the Annexe as unique among its peers. The audience were encouraged to scribble their views with crayons and paste them on the wall. Nice to see the civilised and uncivilised side of people shining through.

Below are some shots I took at the festival, not withstanding copyright issues, the images aren't that clear so I don't think those will come up; interspersed with pictures I took on the way from the KL train station.