A Visit to the National Museum

Loke Hong Seng (b. 1943) was working as a radio announcer with Radio Television Singapore in the 1960s when he picked up photography and subsequently grew to specialize in street photography. His images of 1960s and 1970s Singapore offer a candid view of everyday life in the early days of the nation’s development. This photograph captures a group of schoolboys at the National Museum of Singapore’s grounds. The boys had probably completed their visit to the museum, and many of them are depicted here enjoying an ice cream.