Featured would like to know more about the photographer.

dear all

i would like to find out more about the photo studio that took these photos. googling "Low Fong" + additional keywords like photographer or singapore is not giving me any sensible hits. i think the photo was taken in the early 1900s? any advice on how to find out when the studio was operational?

regards
phaik hooi

 

Great photos! The only thing I could find was another photo by Low Fong (here). I can't find any useful information unfortunately - hopefully others can help .

 

got a 502 Bad Gateway
me too! hopefully others can help

 

I was able to see it........just above the image is what it said about the image, but I did not see a date anywhere.....

221_001_photo-ancienne-militaire-marin-photo-low-fong-singapore-singapour

 

Thanks Aquitaine, you beat me to it!

I tried searching for the address in the original post but came up with nothing. There must be a record somewhere but it's going take quite a bit of digging...

 

thanx! will save the photo!

 

The photos in the original post appear to be earlier than the photo that was found later and posted above. It's tricky to tell exact years because my knowledge of card mounts is mostly based on what was done in the U.S. Sometimes other countries differed. But I think the original photos posted could date from the late 19th century, and the later one that was found would be from early 20th century.

I've just spent some time looking for information on the history of Singapore photographers. This book was published in 2009:
Jason Toh (author), Singapore Through 19th Century Photographs (Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2009) 176 p.

A review of the book here indicates that it's about the scenic photography of the city of Singapore, and says that not much research has been done on portrait photographers of Singapore. I did find that some individual photographers and studios have been researched but didn't find anything about the Low Fong studio. Here is something I found about a different photographer, G. R. Lambert, who started his business in Singapore in 1867 and went into the 20th century. His work would have overlapped with the business of Low Fong. (Note, this link will open a PDF document): http://spm.org.sg/~/media/spm/documents/the originals of gr lambert.pdf?la=en

 

Love the photographs, and it looks like they had fun.
You could contact one of the archives/museums in Singapore that have photographic collections:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tap/79...tographs-in-singapores?rgn=main;view=fulltext

 

tq!! very helpful. i also feel that my photos are older because of the card mount

 

yes i will do that. the link also mentions KFWong. i have a whole bunch of KFWong prints, mostly bared-topped local girls , but here are some nice ones ...
postcard size

large print, 15" x 12"

 

that's my great grandpa on the left.
he was murdered by the workers (read slaves) at his father's estate in 1913. my ancestors were not very nice people

 

Man in third photograph has an Imperial mustache as popularized by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany so likely circa World War I.

Debora

 

looks like a Kampilan in his mouth......i think he's a head hunter !!!

 

Am I the only one a little uneasy that he stuffed those two cute dogs for his studio shots?

 

how do you know they're stuffed...and not clay !

Speaking of which...that watch fob looks highly familliar.....

 

the dogs are clay, not stuffed

watch fob familiar? explain please? something in your collection perhaps?

 

Likely Sarawak, the Malaysian part of Borneo, both of them. The second one has a very nice Javanese style belt. I hope he got it through trade, not something else....

 

He is even more handsome in colour.

 

Definitely clay. Reminds me of when my brother told my mother that the ermine and rabbit she had seen were actually just playing with each other.

Komo is referring to this thread:
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/i...ket-or-just-a-photo-locket.22788/#post-306233

 

yes it does look similar