00:00So patriotic
00:06Most of the time they are birds
00:30This is a crow
00:35This one is a slanting squirrel, a young one
00:40So this one is one that the vet has kept
00:43Yeah, this is a kingfisher
00:46What I do is I will examine the tacos first
00:50The vet says it's a dislocated shoulder
00:53likely from four trauma
01:00Death by Man is my final year project
01:17It's a photographic documentation of the plight of Singapore's wildlife
01:22From rogue kill and window strike to abuse cases
01:26It highlights the harsh reality of the wild animals that are living in our urban city
01:32All these prints are the actual prints from the exhibition at Lee Kongchen Natural History Museum
01:44Okay, this one
01:49So this one is a dollar bird
01:52So this bird is the only animal that died in my hands right before I photographed the bird
01:58The vet at Acre, she actually gave me this bird to hold
02:03before she utilized this bird
02:05This dollar bird had a broken neck
02:08So the neck was just dangling around like a ragdoll
02:10I held this bird, the bird was screaming, looking at me in the eye
02:14When I photographed all the other animals, I don't cry
02:19This was the only one that I really started boiling my eyes out
02:24Probably is also a good thing because all this war, I was holding it in
02:29just to get the work done
02:31But then, because of this incident, everything just poured out
02:36I fell ill somewhere around 2018, just after I completed my final year project
02:48So I made a grand entrance to the stage when they called my name
02:52Because no one has ever seen me on a wheelchair with an eye patch
02:56And no one knew about it, even my closest friends
03:01I had autoimmune disease and I had a rare variant that affected my nerves
03:05Not only I can't feel the ground, I can't really hold things
03:09At one point, I couldn't open my eyes, I had double vision
03:12It was very heartbreaking because I really wanted to do more projects
03:18I wanted to continue Death by Man
03:22I mean, I didn't give up that hope
03:24If I ever get to hold a camera again or, you know, maybe if I only can use one eye
03:29I will still try my best
03:31After I recovered, I took a job with Acres first
03:37Then I went on to do photography after my contract
03:41And I still had this itch to get back into the wildlife scene
03:46So I went back to Acres again
03:48And currently I am the campaign manager of our Wild Neighbours initiative
03:52Singapore's first multi-stakeholder nationwide outreach program
03:57That promotes co-existence with our wildlife
04:05We are here at Mandai Wildlife Reserve to meet Dr. Charlene Yong
04:09Who is the vet at the Animal Hospital
04:11Yeah, and she's also own four committee member
04:14Death by Man is almost like a macrocosm of our Wild Neighbours' efforts
04:31People like hearing the stories
04:33Feel the, you know, the empathy, the sympathy
04:35And feel that connection
04:36Often with native wildlife that are founded
04:38It's often very gory, you know, people don't see beyond, you know, the initial goriness
04:42And yet, you know, Jaspik really brings out the beauty
04:46The sadness, you know, behind each story
04:57Joel was a roadkill found in the pouring rain
05:00In the middle of the road
05:01His mother was actually cradling him when the rescue team came down
05:05Even though his eyes were bulging out
05:07The other eyeball was missing
05:10The mother just kept cradling the dead body
05:13And the rescue team had to wait in the rain
05:15All the way until she accepted his death, let go
05:19And then she went away
05:24One of the most gruesome portrait that I have in the whole series
05:28It's the one that kids are actually drawn to, surprisingly
05:33I've ever come across a couple of parents pulling their kids away
05:37And even covering their eyes and bringing them out
05:40It really goes to show that
05:42It's the adults that are trying to ignore this reality
05:46That is happening to our wildlife
05:48And the kids are the curious ones
05:50It's very important for us to be true to ourselves
05:54This is the threats that our wildlife is facing
05:57And it's something that we should acknowledge
06:01And do something about it
06:02Whether it is drive responsibly on the road
06:05Be more careful
06:07Or if for a window strike case
06:09Maybe put up window decal stickers
06:12To prevent any bird strikes
06:14Our wild neighbours' long term goal
06:17Is for human wildlife co-existence
06:19Learning to live in harmony with our neighbours
06:22Whether human or animal neighbours
06:36I'm happy that I've recovered from it
06:39It feels like I have a purpose again
06:41Being able to tell the stories of animals
06:46That are unable to share what they want to say
06:51If I'm able to do it for many more years to come
06:54And with the support of everyone
06:57I hope to go bigger
06:59People do care
07:01We just need the stories to be out there
07:04Yeah, for them to be known
07:11ำland
07:13The people of the planet
07:15Could that're not coming
07:15We did not make advice
07:16messy
07:20Throughlife
07:21Some people who'd like to be alone
07:24Kollege
07:25Hill
07:27People don't even love
07:29Oops
07:31Bye
07:32Uh
07:33One
07:34Two
07:35theme
07:36Sometimes
07:37Many men
07:38With
07:39Some people
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