He has been based in Southeast Asia for more than 12 years. Puzzled by the brevity of human existence against the vastness of time and space, his work is both a poetic contemplation of life and a rebellion against the imperatives of commercialisation and commodification. His series "Tidal Pools" is a photographic excavation of shrouded, neglected spaces in Singapore. In the "Blue Flower", he delved deeper into the poetry of dusky urban niches to compose witful and disquieting photographs if micro-landscapes filled with rocks, soil and perplexing formations of colour. www.philipp-aldrup.com