Grandma – De Sheng Lim

Grandma

My grandmother, she doesn’t even know her own birthday. She tells me back then people never recorded birthdays lest somebody use it for black magic. She has lived in Melbourne for thirty-odd years. She doesn’t speak English. Her house is always so cold I tell her to turn on the heater. She collects many things, or rather she doesn’t throw out old stuff. I didn’t meet her until I was 5 years old. I remember walking up to her, a round big lady. She gave me a red pocket. I didn’t see her again for another few years. My mother and grandmother were estranged. Who is my grandmother?

De Sheng Lim

De Sheng comes from a cinematography and film background (Foundations Certificate inFilm& Television.Victorian College of the Arts). Before that he was studying business management at RMIT.

The decision to take up photography was by chance: he enrolled into a local photography college midway through 2005 (Advanced Diploma in Photography. Photography Studies College). He has since left the course to focus on more personal work. I have had my work exhibited a number of times receiving a silver medal in Traditional Portraiture at the AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards 2007. Email: deshenglim@gmail.com