Shenti Lixing: The Documenting Practice of Loke Hong Seng

2015
Wubin Zhuang

Loke's documenting practice can be understood as an “embedded and embodied process,” developed through repeated encounters with the people and communities he photographed.
Zhuang Wubin, photography writer, curator and researcher, Shenti Lixing: The Documenting Practice of Loke Hong Seng, 2015

 

Zhuang, Wubin. “Shenti Lixing: The Documenting Practice of Loke Hong Seng.” In A Social Portrait of Singapore, The Critical Years. Photography by Loke Hong Seng, edited by Audrey Yeo, 58-59. Singapore: Yeo Workshop, 2015. * In this essay, I consider the documenting practice of senior Singaporean street photographer Loke Hong Seng as an embedded/embodied practice, encapsulated by the idiom of “Shenti Lixing” (身体力行).