PORTRAIT OF A CITY: Kuala Lumpur
There are many genres in photography as there are many cars on the roads. Everyone has his own favourite genre-just like so many cakes from Kelantan. All are sweet but my top choice is kueh beko. Similarly in photography, my top choice is URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY. It is my prefered genre but I also enjoy street, landscape and portrait photography .
KL has a great influence in my life. I studied at TIKL from 1969 to 1972. During the course of my working life, I lived in KL from 1983 to 2009. The years totaled to almost three decades of city life. And that made me enjoy city life-being urban and urbane at the same time.
I love photographing cities — scenes like this one always catch my eye. Urban photography allows me to capture more than just buildings or people; it lets me frame the personality of a city. Each image becomes a kind of portrait, much like how a portrait of a person reflects their identity, emotion, and story.
To me, the city is alive. Its streets, cafés, trees, and casual interactions all form a visual language that reveals the soul of a place. Every corner has character, every shadow a mood, every structure a sense of purpose.
Urban photography is also my way of documenting the place where I live, work, and wander. It’s a personal archive — a visual journal that grows over time. With each photo, I’m preserving fleeting moments of urban life that might otherwise go unnoticed.
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