Working to keep film alive

TURNING your passion or hobby into a viable business is not new, but when it is catering to a niche market like analog (film) photography enthusiasts, it can be a bit of a challenge.

For Chin Koon Yik, the reasons for quitting his sales job with enterprise software company SAP Malaysia and setting up his shop Bang Bang Geng just over a year ago was due to the frustration of not being able to find photography shops that sold film for analogue enthusiasts.