Tropical Tree

Title

Tropical Tree

Creator

Chua Tiag Ming

Year/Period

Circa 1960s–1970s

Region

Singapore

Object Type

gelatin silver prints

Material

silver gelatin paper, photographic gelatin

Technique

gelatin silver process

Dimension

Image size: 37.6 x 49.5 cm,
Image size: 37.7 x 49.5 cm

Accession No.

2019-00508

Collection of

National Gallery Singapore

Chua Tiag Ming was an amateur photographer well-known in the salon photography movement in Singapore between the 1960s and 1970s. He was awarded the Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS) in 1977 and a member of the Photographic Society of Singapore (PSS), serving in the committee for a number of years. Chua's technical proficiency and adherence to formal conventions of composition, framing, use of light and shadow is typical of the pictorial photography style of the time. In this photograph, the silhouette of the tree against the bright background creates a striking backlight effect, emphasizing the form of tree as a subject matter as well as the tropical clime.