Leong family

After trying his new long-distance portraiture method on his own family, John Clang sought other separated Singaporean families online and through embassies and friends. He and his wife then set about traveling the world -- London, Paris, Tokyo, and more -- to shoot the portrait subjects in their living spaces while their Singapore kin stood in front of their Webcam-enabled computers and beamed in via Skype.

Here, Jessie Leong, her daughter Megan Marsh, and pooches, all based in Hong Kong, pose with family back in Singapore. They are (back row from left) Brandon Wong and Jessie's sister Belinda Leong, brother Donald Leong, and (front row, from left) Donald's daughter Jeanette Leong and parents Helen Ang and Robert Leong.