Portraits

Rémi Malachin is the creator of French Toast, a young singaporean company specialized in the teaching of French language. Rémi arrived in Singapore in 2008 to work as an architect. Since then, he has sucessfully converted himself in a new profession. Portrait of an entrepreneur full of ideas, engaged in promoting French and turning it's learning into a pleasure.

Rémi Malachin was in no way predestined to open a French learning school. When he arrived in Singapore, in January 2008, it was to work as an architect, a logical move after his studies in this field in Nancy. But in Singapore, his career path has switched rapidly: He met his wife, founded a family and eventually stepped back from a field of expertise where he didn't find enough perspectives. He once contemplated the idea of creating is own architect firm, but such a project was far from being family compatible. While realizing freelance missions as a designer, he started to give French private courses. He soon found it very attractive and his teacher schedule filled in rapidly. In 2010, he decided to make the big jump and created French Toast, a Training center exclusively dedicated to French Language.

A balinese artist living in the Netherlands, Brenda Reimers was presenting her creations at the Singapore Art Fair from 9th to 11th October. Photograph of the senses, she has created for her model a set of natural jewels and vegetal hats, whose ingredients are an evocation of each country's culinary tradition.

Nicolas Ribeyron is Regional HR Manager of Imerys-pigments for Paper Asia Pacific. He tells us about his challenges and projects within Imerys. This is the portrait of an HR Manager with a strong social ambition and the willingness to promote bold projects to stimulate the engagement of all employees.

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Expatriate in Singapore, Florence Notte has taken advantage of her stay in the city State to perfect her art in photography. After an exhibition last year, she launches her last book on February 9th. An urban journey where natural mirror effects ceaselessly reinvent new perspectives and where building transmute into frames holding captive a mystified reality.