PHOTO FACE-OFF

Premieres Sep 23, Tuesday 10.30pm

Five photographers from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam are competing for the assignment of a lifetime – an all expenses paid trip to New York City to photograph some of the world’s biggest stars and a trip to the Canon Photo clinic in Japan.

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“Photography is one of the most celebrated ways to capture history. We developed Photo Face-Off as an original series for HISTORY™ to showcase the unique cultures and diversity in Asia,” said Michele Schofield, Senior Vice President, Programming & Marketing, A+E Networks Asia. “Canon recognized the opportunity to integrate their cameras into the series and be our presenting sponsor.”

“We saw a good synergy between Photo Face-Off and our Canon PhotoMarathon and are thrilled to be working with HISTORY on this unique series,” said Hideaki Nishimura, Senior Director & General Manager, Regional Imaging & Consumer Products Division, Canon Singapore Pte. Ltd. “At Canon, we believe anyone is capable of capturing his or her special moments in a beautiful manner and we hope to inspire more people in continuing to do so.”

HISTORY premieres its most ambitious series yet—the US$40 million production Vikings beginning September 29 at SGT10 pm.

The series is inspired by the tales of the raiding, trading, and exploring Norsemen of early medieval Scandinavia. It follows the exploits of the legendary Viking chieftain Ragnar Lodbrok and his crew and family, as notably laid down in the 13th century sagas Ragnars saga Loðbrókar and Ragnarssona þáttr, as well as in Saxo Grammaticus’s 12th century work Gesta Danorum. Norselegendary sagas were partially fictional tales based in Norse oral tradition, written down about 200 to 400 years after the events they describe. Further inspiration is taken from historical sources of the period, such as records of the Viking raid on Lindisfarne depicted in the second episode, or Ahmad ibn Fadlan’s 10th-century account of the Volga Vikings. The series is set at the beginning of the Viking Age, marked by the Lindisfarne raid in 793.

 

Watch the trailer

 

HISTORY is available on StarHub TV Ch 401 and 455(HD)