Pixman searching for boy he met at Central Market in 1985

By ROUWEN LIN

Enigmatic subject: ‘Lorry Boy’ is among Ho’s portraits currently being displayed at Wei-Ling Gallery in Brickfields.

KUALA LUMPUR: Their first contact was fleeting, to say the least. Photo­grapher Hari Ho (pic below), on a mission to document the final days of Central Market ahead of its impending closure in 1985, took a photo of a little boy who caught his eye.

The child, clad in shorts and a white sailor boy shirt, perched atop a wooden barrel surrounded by gunny sacks, obliged.

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