(this text based on the catalogue for the 2015 exhibition hosted by YEO Workshop

Loke Hong Seng is a fine art photographer who specialised in shooting urban life, street portraits and the changing face of Singapore during the 1960s to 1980s. He joined the Photographic Society of Singapore in 1968.

As a documentary photographer his works provide insights into the social and historical aspects of Singapore’s culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

While he moved away from pictorialism as a style, much of his work maintains an aesthetic often found in the former pictorialist movement.

In 1973, he received the Golden Award from the 3rd Singapore Photo Art Photography Society, and in 1974 contributed one work that was selected at the Photokina Exhibition in Cologne, Germany, with “One World for All” UNESCO Award. He also exhibited at the Unesco Headquarters in Paris in 1975 with “Human Settlement”. 

In recent years Loke Hong Seng has been in demand for talks, presentations and exhibitions, and his photograph was selected as the main feature of Clifford Pier’s 80th Anniversary photo contribution.

An article about the exhibition - click here.

Click here - for the information on the YEO Workshop website.

Gael Newton's essay for 2025 Yo Workshop exhibition in Singapore