Singapore photographer Lui Hock Seng, who had his first solo exhibition at 81, dies at 88

Lui Hock Seng (seen here in a 2017 photo) was an amateur photographer who worked as a cleaner. His first photography exhibition in 2018, titled Passing Time, featured Singapore in the 1960s and 1970s. - Photo: ST

SINGAPORE: Lui Hock Seng, a self-taught local photographer who found acclaim with his first exhibition at 81, died on Saturday (July 26) at the age of 88.

He had been admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital for pneumonia, said his youngest son Roger Looi, 51, who confirmed his death.