Ore Huiying

Ore Huiying is a Singapore-based documentary photographer, whose work focuses on the complex issues surrounding people and places affected by development in Asia. Her images have been published in internationally recognized media—such as National Geographic magazine, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal—as well as exhibited in photo festivals, museums and galleries around the world. Ore was selected for the World Press Photo 6×6 Global Talent Program in 2018, which identifies and promotes one visual storyteller from each inhabited continent. In the same year, she won the top honor of the Invisible Photographer Asia Awards.

As a National Geographic Explorer, Ore is documenting the social and environmental impacts of dams being built on the Mekong River. With her work, she hopes to tell the stories of the vulnerable river-based communities who face the most immediate consequences of these dams, as well as raise awareness and inspire deeper conversations about the Mekong.