🇸🇬 Singapore Aug 12, 2026 · Zachary Tang

No Tail, No Mouth: Alexandra Canal, and Everything We Clear Away to Keep Building

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No Tail, No Mouth: Alexandra Canal, and Everything We Clear Away to Keep Building
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Text and images by Zachary Tang. Equipment support by Leica Store Singapore.



It’s a Thursday night, and everyone else left hours ago. I’m alone writing this in the RICE Media office, which through its many iterations—Jalan Besar, then Ann Siang—has now found itself in an industrial building in Redhill. Alexandra Canal sits right across the road. It’s the unwitting subject of this photo essay. 



Boh Beh Kang, as the early Chinese settlers called it, since it lacked a clear, visible sour

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