SINGAPORE – Now 88, veteran photographer Foo Tee Jun can no longer hold up a camera. Unlike the more snobbish of his profession, however, he has only good things to say about the iPhone: It at least still allows him to snap photographs of his surroundings for good morning WhatsApp messages that he crafts daily to his friends.
Foo, speaking in Mandarin over the telephone, says some of these in his storage have degraded over time. In secondary school, he was the only person in his class who owned a camera, a second-hand Agfa given to him by his factory worker father on his 15th birthday. His classmates clamoured for it, and predictably, it quickly went missing.
Thus equipped, Foo enrolled as a member of the Photographic Society Of Singapore and went on photographic expeditions every Sunday. In 1965, a friend “took pity” on him and set him up with capital to purchase an analogue Nikon. Ever the realist, he feels no particular attachment to the monochrome colours of his photographs that lend them a gritty, and in some instances, even abstract, sensibility.“Colour was too expensive. It actually depends on the subject. If the colour of a space is super vibrant, colour is definitely better than black-and-white,” he says.
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