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Charmaine Poh’s films examine the struggles of queer women in Singapore.

Charmaine Poh’s films examine the struggles of queer women in Singapore.

PHOTO: CHARMAINE POH

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SINGAPORE – At 21, Charmaine Poh “stumbled” onto art during a documentary practice programme led by a war photographer at Tufts University in the United States.

She was studying international relations, but harboured a keener interest in the performing arts – “becoming a vessel for this other world” – when something shifted.

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