Kevin Lim by Khairil Faizi Abdul Majid
I was born in 1964 in Malaysia and now live in Kilcommon, Tipperary. I have been a photographer since childhood and commissioned since 2017.
I deliver online talks globally and to FIAP level members of the Irish Photographic Federation Camera Clubs in Ireland. I have acted as a judge for competitions organised by the federation clubs and continue with my online coaching sessions via ZOOM to clients internationally.
My work has been featured in ezines and published zines internationally and exhibited in Asia, Europe, the USA and most recently in May 2022 at the Maq'ad of Sultan Qaitbey in Cairo, Egypt in an event supported by the Institut Francais Egypte ~French Institute in Egypt and the Friends of the Manial Palace Museum and the European Union and Zurich based Drosos Stiftung ~ Drosos Foundation.
The latest is for the Visions of Immigration: Sculpting the Mosaic exhibition Tuesday 16th August 2022 Manchester, England, UK.
I also work in support of people starting up micro-businesses, local town and village events such as Traditional Music festivals, book launches, shop openings and exhibitions and portraits for local artists.
Precovid the bulk of my paid work commissioned from Irish designer Anne Behan of ÁineKnitwear / McConnellWollenMills, Killaloe, Co.Clare. Anne was the Overall Winner of the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland Best Product Award at Showcase 2018, Dublin and because of her my images has been published in the business section of RTE, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, BizPlus, The Nenagh Guardian, The Limerick Post and Clare Echo, The Sunday Independent Life Magazine and the Country Club UK Magazine, Mayfair UK.
My work was seen on print display in tradeshows in Ireland, the UK, Germany, NY and Australia.
I handled the company’s corporate portfolio and photography for website and editorial print: Corporate Events-Executive Profiles-Corporate Profiles-Asset-Catalogues-Online Web store-Festivals and Events-Copy writing-Professional Statements.
I express myself best through Street Photography because it’s my method of paying attention, rather than a genre, which gives me the latitude I need to create visual oxymorons, counterpoints and tension within a photographic frame that houses layers of truth.
My approach to street photography is strongly informed but not limited to work on Body & Personality Theory of Personal Identity, Surrealism, Gestalt, bio-neurology, cognitive psychology, socio-semantic, semiotics and occidental /oriental philosophies.
My search for valid answers to questions about my personal identity and identity in others is firmly rooted in my deep-seated interest in Neurology and Altered Body Image/Perception and pain control in my previous work with people who suffered from burns and brainstem stroke, coma, amputation and leukemia since the mid-1980s.
Kevin Lim was part of the Gang at the beginning of our adventure.