Title
Huang Da Li's submission to the Singapore International Photography Competition entitled ‘A Photographer in Action’
Year/Period
1952
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Object size: L:30.5cm W:15.5cm
Accession No.
2002-00867
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Wu Sijing
Huang Da Li was a literary writer before settling into the Chinese medicine business. He was also an amateur photographer. In July 1952, he married his childhood sweetheart, Si Jing (the pen name of Ng Soo Lui), a prolific female writer in the Chinese community who has written extensively on her childhood and life in Chinatown. Si Jing often became the subject of his photographs.