Title
Unauthorised Zinc Attap Houses
Creator
Year/Period
2015 [1968]
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Frame size: 59.0 x 78.0 x 2.0 cm,
Image size: 35.0 x 55.7 cm
Image size: 35.0 x 55.7 cm
Accession No.
2016-00732
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 captures the attap houses along Whampoa River, soon to be demolished in a time of resettlement and redevelopment.
