Malaysian history through the lens of Ooi Cheng Ghee

A luminous book of photography is the result of one man’s efforts to document part of this country’s history before all signs of it vanish beneath the onslaught of ‘progress’.

MARKET Street was the main thoroughfare that led into Little India from the terminal and jetties on the east side of Penang Island, and the “Seven Point Junctions” – as the Tamils then knew it – became the congregation site for immigrants from mainly southern India over the centuries and decades.