Ladies scrapping off cement scrap on newly made cement floor

Lui Hock Seng (b. 1937) is a self-taught photographer who was active on the scene during the 1960s and 1970s. His works belong to the pictorial photography movement and his pictures largely depict the landscapes of trades of a rapidly-changing Singapore during the 1960s and 1970s. This photograph of the women working was taken in the East of Singapore.

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