Industrial Photographer Singapore for National Environmental Agency Waste Management
This commissioned series for the National Environment Agency follows Singapore’s waste end to end. Specifically, from the moment it arrives to the moment it goes into the sea. Household refuse enters the bunker at the Tuas South Incineration Plant, held below atmospheric pressure so the smell cannot escape. Crane operators feed the incinerators from air-conditioned cabs, with duplicate cranes and hoppers so the line keeps running through maintenance. What remains leaves by barge, covered so nothing blows away on the crossing. It then ends in the cells at Semakau Landfill, inside a seven-kilometre rock bund. The industrial photography here covers the whole procedure. Specifically, on the plant floor, from the deck of the refuse tug and from the air.
Photographs from this series have been published by the National Environment Agency and in The Straits Times, and on the NEA website.
Waste management system
Tuas South Incineration Plant collects all the household refuse in Singapore before burning them.
This refuse bunker collects all the daily refuse. Consequently the bunker runs below atmospheric pressure, so the smell cannot escape.
Crane operators seats in a safe air-conditioned room while feeding the refuse to the incinerators.
There are multiple cranes and hoppers so that during regular maintenance, the process will still remain working.
A view of the Tuas Marine Transfer station from the deck, on the refuse tug boat.
As the tug approaches the Transfer Station it must line up with the entrance. Only then can it pick up the refuse barge,
Singapore Industrial Photographer at Pulau Semakau
An aerial photo by Tuckys Photography’s Industrial photographer while shooting the commissioned project at Pulau Semakau in Singapore. The barge carries the ashes from the incinerator. Hence the barge carries a cover, so the wind cannot take the ashes during transport.
The extra large dump truck transports the ashes from the barge to dump them into the landfill cell.
Aerial photography of the floating platform which the trucks rely on to get to the middle of the cell.
The water treatment plant treats the landfill’s water before releasing it into the sea.\
Semakau landfill Aerial Photography with Industrial photographer Singapore
Aerial view of Semakau landfill from the east with Bund 1 fully covered and vegetation growing. The UAV permit limits height in restricted airspace. Therefore this image stitches together multiple shots to make the full frame.
Professional Commercial Industrial Photographer Singapore for aerial photography and videography with drone at Semakau Landfill. Permits from CAAS acquired before the shooting with NEA began.
A creative way to show the progress of Semakau Landfill with the NEA. A 360-degree angle lets Tuckys Photography’s industrial photographer Singapore capture the full view of the island. Consequently there is no need to fly much higher.
Common questions about industrial photography
Why do clients want to document their industrial work and processes?
To show the work already finished and the work still running, in a form they can actually publish. Some go further and build their own library of industrial images. That saves commissioning a new shoot every time. NEA draws on its Semakau Landfill set for collateral, bus-stop advertising, press releases, ministerial briefings, work-progress records and website updates.
Why do organisations build their own industrial image library?
The images belong to them. They can reuse the set across everything they publish, instead of commissioning a new shoot each time. Nobody knows every future use on the day. So Tuckys Photography photographs an industrial library wider than a single campaign needs. That covers plant, construction, landfill and marine operations, and the people running them.
What should an industrial photograph show?
People at work, with the proper branding, the proper safety equipment and the proper procedures in frame. Construction site, manufacturing plant or landfill operation — the point stays the same. Industrial photography shows that the organisation and its staff can do the work. It proves the technical skill, the knowledge and the equipment.
Are industrial photographs posed, or captured as the work happens?
Tuckys Photography captures most industrial and construction images while the work is actually happening. Where it is safe to do so, the photographer directs the action, but the task itself is real.
Why does PPE matter in industrial photography?
An image showing the wrong safety equipment is not one a company can publish. Nor is one showing a procedure done wrongly. Where PPE on site was not correct, Tuckys Photography cut the shoot short. Those frames never got used. Every industrial image published here meets international and local safety regulations.
Semakau Landfill photography project with NEA
Aerial photography project with NEA documenting the progress of the Semakau landfill sites.
Industrial photography for public agencies and utilities
NEA photography across Tuas incineration photography, Semakau landfill photography and waste to energy plant photography is environmental infrastructure photography for a public sector photography client in Singapore.
Incineration plant photography, plant operations photography, utilities photography and aerial industrial photography from licensed drones come from an industrial photographer in Singapore who also produces waste management videography, so government agency photography, industrial facility photography and industrial documentary photography share one crew.
Industrial photography in Singapore for infrastructure photography and public utility photography: waste facility photography, environmental services photography and facility documentation photography for government photography briefs, with industrial aerial photography in Singapore from licensed drones.
