Singapore Industrial Photographer & Videographer Since 2002

Industrial sites and sectors we photograph and film

The same technical discipline applies wherever the work happens. These are the sectors and site types that make up our Singapore industrial photography and videography portfolio.

Aerospace MRO facilities and engine test cells

Aero engine assembly, test cells and the technicians and trainees who run them, photographed at the Rolls-Royce Seletar campus.

Shipyards, vessel refurbishment and sea trials

Dry-dock refurbishment such as the JP88 Stork at Keppel Shipyard, WEM Marine catamaran launches and heavy lifts, and crew at work aboard SAFEEN Centurion 2 for Pacific Radiance.

Offshore operations and commercial diving

Vessel loading and unloading, security craft, marine safety procedures and commercial diving operations photographed and filmed alongside and at sea.

Quarries and open-cut mines

Heavy machinery at work on a coal stockpile in Balikpapan and a stone quarry in Thailand, filmed for Hitachi Construction Machinery.

Construction sites and heavy lifts

Precast bridge lifts at the Gallop Extension of the Singapore Botanic Gardens and catamarans lifted onto a transport vessel, documented from the first rigging to the final set-down.

Precision engineering and steel fabrication

CNC boring, welding and cutting on the shop floor at Böhler and Chin Yuan Metal, lit so the machinist and the work both hold focus.

Waste management and incineration plants

NEA’s waste management operation photographed end to end, from the refuse bunker at Tuas South Incineration Plant to the landfill cells at Semakau, on the ground and from the air.

Industrial training academies

Forklift, rigger and signalman, and scissor-lift courses at Bok Seng Academy, plus the Rolls-Royce training centre, photographed for marketing and for training material that has to show the correct method.

Warehouses, logistics and delivery yards

Forklift runs, steel racks and delivery operations photographed for logistics and metal-trading clients, with motion held where it tells the story.

Automotive aftersales workshops

Mechanics diagnosing and repairing in the workshop, photographed as industrial portraits for a Volkswagen aftersales series.

Aerial and drone documentation of industrial assets

Vessels under way, landfill cells, quarry floors and plant roofs photographed and filmed from the air under our CAAS licence and per-operation activity permits.

Industrial photography and videography across Singapore’s sectors

Tuckys works as an industrial photographer in Singapore and an industrial videographer in Singapore, producing industrial photography and videography for offshore photography, marine photography and shipyard photography, aerospace photography at restricted facilities, and manufacturing photography, factory photography and plant photography for engineering and heavy industry clients.

Waste management photography for public agencies, steel industry photography, engineering photography, industrial portrait photography of the people on site and industrial drone photography from CAAS-licensed pilots are all produced by the same crew, so industrial videography in Singapore and the stills share one look.

Industrial site photography and industrial process photography record production line photography, industrial machinery photography and the people who run them, for industrial marketing photography, annual report industrial photography and tender submissions. Industrial video production in Singapore covers the same sites in motion, and the industrial photographer for engineering firms, shipyards and manufacturers works to each site’s permit, PPE and safety rules.

Frequently Asked Questions – Industrial Photography & Videography

What is industrial photography, and how is it different from commercial photography?

Industrial photography documents heavy machinery, manufacturing and process facilities, engineering and construction projects, and the people who run them, on site rather than in a studio: inside the plant, on the vessel, at the quarry face. It is a subgenre of commercial photography. A commercial shoot builds an emotional connection with styled sets, cast talent and full control of the light. An industrial shoot lives on realism, recording real operations as they happen for reports, tenders, training and marketing. Both are lit with the same care; only one lets you move the subject.

Does Tuckys Photography produce high-end industrial images suitable for above-the-line marketing?

Yes. We produce high-end commercial industrial imagery for above-the-line campaigns, some of which call for large-format print. Where the quality of the file matters, as it did for Rolls-Royce, Böhler Asia Pacific and Bok Seng, we capture on medium format so the image holds at bus-side scale. The Bok Seng Academy portraits, for example, became a full bus wrap: see the wrapped bus on Bok Seng Group’s page. Our aerial vessel images are made to the same standard: evocative, eye-catching frames built to carry a campaign. The style is storytelling with focus: the scene is lit so the subject holds inside a complicated scenario, with the proper PPE, branding and procedure in place, so the image that documents the operation is the image that carries the campaign. See the industrial portraits series.

Does Tuckys Photography produce portraits within industrial projects?

Yes. Industrial portraits are the heart of our industrial work: people at work, photographed on the floor to high-end commercial standards, so a company can show the skill, knowledge and equipment behind what it builds. At the Rolls-Royce Seletar campus that meant technicians at the engine and trainees in the training centre; for Böhler Asia Pacific, machinists at the lathe; aboard SAFEEN Centurion 2 for Pacific Radiance, the bridge crew in orange coveralls keeping watch. Each portrait is lit so the person holds focus inside a complicated scene, with the proper PPE, branding and procedure in frame, because the picture has to illustrate the purpose of the work and let the client tell their own story. They work as hard in an annual report, on a website or in a recruitment drive as they do above the line: in large-format print, on banners and on out-of-home panels. See the full industrial portraits series.

What makes Tuckys Photography different from other industrial photographers in Singapore?

Three things, together. We produce Singapore industrial photography good enough for above-the-line work. We understand the industrial process before we arrive: how a vessel refurbishment runs, how a heavy lift is sequenced, how a ship’s safety procedure works, how NEA’s waste management runs from Tuas to Semakau, what a machine is for, and why one vessel is built or powered differently from another and what it is specialised to do. And, like every good industrial photographer, we are particular about safety on site. Knowing the work in advance is what lets us narrate it rather than just record it: NEA’s waste management operation, the JP88 Stork refurbishment at Keppel Shipyard, the Gallop precast bridge lift. Add the commercial finish and the storytelling, and the client gets pictures that tell their story in their own terms.

Do you understand the engineering well enough to know what matters in the frame?

That is what separates a usable image from a record, and it comes down to attention to detail. On an aero engine it means knowing the intake from the fan from the test instrumentation, and what may not be shown at all. On a newbuild vessel it means the milestones an owner reports on: launch, sea trial, bollard pull, handover. In process documentation every step, tool and hand position has to be right, because the people who do the job will read the picture. That same detail is what makes the storytelling work: each frame is built to bring out the client’s capability and the skill of their people, so one series serves marketing and PR as well as the record. Scale only reads with a person in the frame, and a dark shop floor needs light brought in and balanced against the plant’s own.

How do you shoot inside a live plant without disrupting it?

Most of the work happens before the shoot: a recce where access allows, a site risk assessment, a review of your HSE protocols, and a shot list built around your operating schedule rather than against it. We have photographed and filmed inside live production facilities, shipyards, quarries and incineration plants across Singapore and Southeast Asia without stopping the work.

Do you work outside Singapore?

Yes. Regional travel is a normal part of the work, and Tuckys Photography has travelled across Asia for different clients since 2002: the Hitachi films at a working coal mine in Balikpapan and a stone quarry in Thailand, vessel deliveries and sea trials in regional waters, and the Asian Para Games. We go to the asset wherever it is, and we arrive self-sufficient, with lighting, grip and backup bodies carried in, because there is no hire shop at a remote quarry.

Do you produce video and aerial as well as stills?

Yes. We produce all three, and we plan them as a series of sessions rather than a single visit, because stills, film and aerial each need their own set-up, light and attention if the result is to hold up. The sequence is agreed around your operations, and the pieces are matched in site and grade so they read as one body of work. Video carries what stills cannot: duration and voice, such as the Hitachi wheel loader operator talking about his machine on his own site, or a heavy lift running end to end. Finished films are on our industrial videography page.

Do you hold a CAAS Unmanned Aircraft Pilot Licence?

Yes. Tuckys Photography holds the CAAS Unmanned Aircraft Pilot Licence and the UA Operator Permit (UOP), and has produced high-end aerial visuals for industrial and marine clients for ten years, since 2015. Each operation also needs its own CAAS activity permit, which we apply for. Restricted airspace needs RSAF clearance, and flights over vessels at anchorage need MPA clearance and the owner’s approval. We arrange those as part of the booking, so aerial work needs lead time. See our aerial photography and videography page.

What kinds of images and sites do you cover for industrial photography and videography?

The whole spread of Singapore industrial photography and videography, wherever the work happens: quarries and open-cut mines, shipyards and vessels at sea, construction sites, manufacturing floors with welding, cutting and precision machining, plant facilities such as an incineration plant and a marine transfer station, an aero engine test cell and its training centre, a car aftersales workshop, warehouses and delivery yards, training academies, and hospitals. Within those we make portraits of people at work, heavy lifts, training material, aerials and film, and component frames for catalogues, including red-hot forged pieces held against a dark shop floor. We also document a process end to end, as with NEA’s waste management from the Tuas South refuse bunker to the landfill cells at Semakau, or a build over time, returning to the same viewpoints so each visit compares honestly. Always with the proper PPE and procedure in frame.

Can an industrial photograph be used for commercial, editorial or corporate purposes?

Yes, and most of our Singapore industrial photography is. We plan the shoot list around every output the client needs, across as many sessions as the work takes: high-resolution stills for the annual report and corporate channels, process frames for HSE training, and imagery for advertising, press and social media. Clients publish our work in annual reports, regulatory submissions, safety training material and global marketing campaigns. NEA draws on its Semakau set for collateral, bus-stop advertising, press releases and ministerial briefings instead of commissioning a new shoot each time.

Do you make safety and training videos as well as marketing films?

Yes. We produced the vessel-boarding safety video for FOS, filming the correct boarding procedure so it could brief the crew, and we photograph rigging, lifting and forklift courses for Bok Seng Academy. Training material carries an obligation marketing does not: the technique shown has to be correct, because the picture will teach. So we work with the trainers rather than around them, and a frame showing the wrong method or the wrong PPE is never used, however good it looks.