Lim Sin Thai is an award-winning Singaporean photographer with a professional career spanning more than 20 years. He bought his first camera when he was 21, and started taking portraits of friends. He improved on the art, knowing that everyone likes a good portrait of himself or herself. Portraiture is an area of photography that he continues to be passionate about.
In 1988, he joined Singapore’s largest english broadsheet, The Straits Times, and that began a career of more than two decades. This covered a wide area of news and feature photography, from sports to food. He has travelled abroad on assignment with all three of Singapore’s Prime Ministers, taking photos of them as well as the foreign dignitaries they met.
He developed a special strength in sports photography and was often assigned to cover important international events such as the World Swimming Championships in Shanghai (2011), the Asian Games in Guangzhou (2010), nine South-East Asian Games and the biennial Suzuki Cup Tournament (2017, 2015, 2013), etc. His work involved getting up close to meet athletes such as swimmer Michael Phelps and footballer Neymar.
His strength in sports photography led him to be appointed head of the local team of 50 photographers covering the first-ever Youth Olympic Games, in Singapore in 2010. This role saw him coaching other photographers on sports photography and also organising photo coverage of the games.
Apart from several in-house awards for his work at The Straits Times, Sin Thai has also been recognised internationally for his work. In 2001, Sin Thai won the Silver Award in the sports photography category given by The World Association of Newspapers. He won the Silver Award again in 2016 for sports photography for his work on the 8th Asean Para Games, held in Singapore the year before.
In 1988, he joined Singapore’s largest english broadsheet, The Straits Times, and that began a career of more than two decades. This covered a wide area of news and feature photography, from sports to food. He has travelled abroad on assignment with all three of Singapore’s Prime Ministers, taking photos of them as well as the foreign dignitaries they met.
He developed a special strength in sports photography and was often assigned to cover important international events such as the World Swimming Championships in Shanghai (2011), the Asian Games in Guangzhou (2010), nine South-East Asian Games and the biennial Suzuki Cup Tournament (2017, 2015, 2013), etc. His work involved getting up close to meet athletes such as swimmer Michael Phelps and footballer Neymar.
His strength in sports photography led him to be appointed head of the local team of 50 photographers covering the first-ever Youth Olympic Games, in Singapore in 2010. This role saw him coaching other photographers on sports photography and also organising photo coverage of the games.
Apart from several in-house awards for his work at The Straits Times, Sin Thai has also been recognised internationally for his work. In 2001, Sin Thai won the Silver Award in the sports photography category given by The World Association of Newspapers. He won the Silver Award again in 2016 for sports photography for his work on the 8th Asean Para Games, held in Singapore the year before.