Title
Not Titled
Creator
Year/Period
Circa 1960s–1970s
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Image size: 40.5 x 29.0 cm,
Object size: 50.8 x 38.3 cm
Object size: 50.8 x 38.3 cm
Accession No.
2019-00509
Collection of
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 was known for a social realist approach in photographing working-class subjects in various working conditions. In this photograph, the climbing figure ascending a coconut tree trunk is likely a coconut harvester. The use of light and shadow in this photograph adds a sense of action and dynamism to the subject photographed.
