Sim Chi Yin A stockpile of sand and gravel in Bedok, eastern Singapore, as seen from a public road. This reserve, which belongs to the country's main building authority - the Housing and Development Board - is
(...) ringed by two layers of fencing. Land-scarce Singapore, which has reclaimed about 20 percent of its area since becoming an independent country in 1965, has had a long history of creating land out of the sea and swamps since British colonial times in the 1820s. It flattened many of its hills and ran out of its own supply of sand decades ago and has been buying sand from its Southeast Asian neighbors for reclamation and construction work. Bedok, Singapore. 2017. From "Shifting Sands", 2017 — on-going. © Sim Chi Yin | Magnum Photos
