Artist draws inspiration from damaged old photographs and oral histories

Amar Shahid's 'Adoration Of The Magi' (oil on canvas), which is part of his pop-up exhibit 'Faith And Fiction' at the Zoo gallery in Petaling Jaya.

Back in the late 1960s and 1970s, the late Salehudin Mansor, a photographer for a magazine, would go around, taking snapshots of ordinary people and daily life in Kuala Lumpur. He amassed quite a portfolio of these works, which have not gone to waste.

Today, his son, the artist Amar Shahid has decided to pay tribute to his father's photographs by reproducing them in an art exhibition.