The Zontiga Insights — Est. 2020

Exploring Photography Beyond the Frame.

Zontiga Insights is our editorial space for stories, ideas, and conversations inspired by photography. From people and places to books, projects, and creative practice, we explore the culture that shapes the images we make.

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Five Issues In: The Journey of Tiga Mata So Far

Five issues in, we’re halfway. Looking back, what matters most isn’t the number. It’s the questions that kept opening up along the way.
Values & Practices
June 30, 2026
Values & Practices
June 30, 2026

Five Issues In: The Journey of Tiga Mata So Far

Five issues in, we’re halfway. Looking back, what matters most isn’t the number. It’s the questions that kept opening up along the way.

THE FEED

Latest from the archive

Photographer interviews
August 7, 2026

Joy Chan: “Art offers perspectives to observe our own existence, to point out and clarify the neglected and the unnoticed”

Malaysian visual artist Joy Chan on anthropology, documentary practice, and 'The Outfall', her exhibition of landscapes stained by polluted river water.
Themed editorials
August 7, 2026

A dedication to mothers and fathers

For Mother's and Father's Day, photographs by Robert Frank, Elliott Erwitt and Wayne Miller that capture the love, grace and strength of parenthood.
Themed editorials
August 7, 2026

Pride Month: Queer Visibility Radically Reimagined

Four publications for Pride Month, featuring artists who have radically reimagined how queer lives are seen and represented.
Single spotlight
August 7, 2026

Take a second look: Brian Fouhy’s amusing perspective of everyday things

Artist Brian Fouhy finds humour in the everyday objects we stop noticing, making a case for taking a second look at the world around us.
Essays
August 7, 2026

Japan’s Explorative Culture of the Photobook

How Japan turned the photobook into a primary art form, where paper, sequencing and design carry as much meaning as the photographs themselves.
Themed roundup
August 7, 2026

Open Mind, Open Eyes: Insights Into The Creative Processes Of Photographers

Five books that open a window onto how photographers such as Cartier-Bresson, Meyerowitz and Adams actually work, and why there is no single right way.

TIGA MATA SERIES

Shaping Southeast Asian Photography

A bi annual photography zine rooted in Southeast Asia, dedicated to showcasing the region’s diverse photographic voices and visual culture. Named after the Malay phrase for “Three Eyes,” Tiga Mata reflects the many ways photographers see the world through observation, emotion, and context.

Ideas & Inspiration

Discover ideas that inspire better creativity.

The Masters
August 7, 2026

Saul Leiter, a photographer with a painter’s eye

Saul Leiter broke every rule of composition and championed colour before the art world was ready, making quiet, painterly frames from ordinary New York streets.
Essays
August 7, 2026

Japan’s Explorative Culture of the Photobook

How Japan turned the photobook into a primary art form, where paper, sequencing and design carry as much meaning as the photographs themselves.
Essays
August 1, 2026

From Pictures to Projects: Why Truth Flux Reflects the Continuing Evolution of Tiga Mata

Photography has long celebrated individual images, but Truth Flux brings together eleven projects that invite us to look beyond the single photograph and into the ideas and relationships that shape photographic meaning.
Essays
July 14, 2026

Write What Lasts a Thousand Years

Write something a person a thousand years from now would understand at once—without footnotes, without the scaffolding of your own era.
Values & Practices
June 30, 2026

Five Issues In: The Journey of Tiga Mata So Far

Five issues in, we’re halfway. Looking back, what matters most isn’t the number. It’s the questions that kept opening up along the way.
June 23, 2026

Manipulation Art in the Age of Truth Flux

Tiga Mata Issue #5: Truth Flux gathers work that retouches, appropriates and reconstructs, treating truth not as a stable destination but as something continually reshaped by technology and interpretation.

PHOTOBOOKS

Read Beyond the Photograph

Themed roundup
August 7, 2026

Open Mind, Open Eyes: Insights Into The Creative Processes Of Photographers

Five books that open a window onto how photographers such as Cartier-Bresson, Meyerowitz and Adams actually work, and why there is no single right way.
Single spotlight
August 7, 2026

Take a second look: Brian Fouhy’s amusing perspective of everyday things

Artist Brian Fouhy finds humour in the everyday objects we stop noticing, making a case for taking a second look at the world around us.
Community
July 26, 2026

Reading Photographs Notes #03

The third Reading Photographs Notes explores three works that challenge a familiar assumption: that a photobook must behave like a book. Together, they prompted conversations about material, memory, authorship, and how the form of a book can become inseparable from the photographs it carries.
Single spotlight
July 15, 2026

Against Legibility: Pale Flare and the Art of Refusal

Pale Flare describes an observation about photographic culture in Thailand, though it applies well beyond. Exhibition statements tend to close down interpretation rather than open it.
Photographer interviews
July 15, 2026

The Invisible Rainbow of Shanghai Remembering a City Through Mi Lu’s Rainbow at Night

Behind Shanghai's familiar skyline exists another city, one that few people ever see. Rainbow at Night is Mi Lu's portrait of that hidden world, and of photography's quiet power to preserve what time eventually takes away.
Community
June 14, 2026

Reading Photographs Notes #02

The second Reading Photographs Notes gathers conversations inspired by three photobooks that approach family from very different perspectives. Together, they prompted reflections on memory, inheritance, and the ways photographs sometimes help us begin conversations that are otherwise difficult to have.

READING PHOTOGRAPHS

In Conversation with Photographs

A recurring session where we gather to experience photography beyond what is immediately visible. Through photobooks and guided discussions, we explore visual language, storytelling, sequencing, and the context that gives each image its meaning.