Writer & Filmmaker
Wayne Lim (b. 2000) is a writer and image-maker from Singapore, based in Boorloo/Perth.
Grounded in an ongoing search for self and home, his practice spans experimental image-making and moving-image work, using them to consider questions of distance, memory, and place. Presently, his interest in walking as a creative methodology has expanded his practice toward interactive media and socially-engaged works that echo the physical, social, and emotional aspects of the migratory experience.
Trained as a visual journalist, his work has been published in Austin’s alt-weekly The Austin Chronicle and Singapore’s daily broadsheet The Straits Times, and awarded at College Photographer of the Year, the world’s largest collegiate photojournalism competition. His documentary films have also screened in competition at the Academy Awards-qualifying Short Shorts Film Festival (Japan), among others.
Certain Deaths (2025)
Fading Frequencies (2024)
Unlearning, Relearning (2023)
Photography
Everyday Heroes (Iceland, 2024)
Presidential Election (Singapore, 2023)
Concerts (2023 - 2025)
Events / Singles (2023 - 2025)
Editorial
The Austin Chronicle (2023)
SPOILT Zine (2025)
Design Work
Visual Arts
Apparatus for Long-Distance Recall (2025)
Measures of Distance (2024)
Experiments
Bachelor of Communication Studies
(First Class Honours)
2025
Film Festival (Thailand)
Young Filmmaker Award
2026
79th College Photographer of the Year (US)
Gold, Individual Multimedia Category
2024
Quick Response Residency
2026
Film Festival
Bangkok, Thailand
2026
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia
Tokyo, Japan
2025
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference
Singapore
2025
Singapore Youth Film Festival
Singapore
2024
26th YOUKI International Youth Media Festival
Wels, Austria
2024
Objectifs FreshTake!
Singapore
2024
Short Circuit 7
Singapore
2023
UT RTF Longhorn Denius Student Film Showcase
Austin, Texas, USA
2023
Third Place ARI, Perth, Australia
2026
Shifting Impressions
NUS Museum, Singapore
2026
Mind The Gap
Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2025
Between Queerness and Religion
Singapore Film Society, by Amadeus Yeo
2025
2024
From searching for missing persons to towing vehicles out of rivers, the volunteer-run Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue (ICE-SAR) keeps both residents and tourists safe.
This photo essay was shot during a 10-day trip to Iceland as part of an overseas reporting class.
While working on this story, I spent three days in the Icelandic highlands with 15 volunteers from the Keflavik rescue team. They welcomed me into their family, with really good spaghetti for dinner, and plenty of laughter during patrols.
A version of this project was published in the World in Focus section of Singapore’s daily broadsheet, The Straits Times, on 25 September 2024.
Read it here.
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