Title
Gaming, Crawford Street
Creator
Year/Period
2015 [1969]
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Frame size: 76.0 x 58.5 x 2.0 cm,
Image size: 52.0 x 35.0 cm
Image size: 52.0 x 35.0 cm
Accession No.
2016-00728
Collection of
Loke Hong Seng (b. 1943) was working as a radio announcer with Radio Television Singapore in the 1960s when he picked up photography and subsequently grew to specialize in street photography. His images of 1960s and 1970s Singapore offer a candid view of everyday life in the early days of the nation’s development. This photograph shows an aerial view of young boys playing carom at Crawford Street. Such gaming sessions were managed by gangs and revealed the social issues of the time.
