A Glimpse of Koay Jetty: 1979 and 2004

By Dr. Ooi Cheng Ghee

July 2023 PHOTO ESSAY
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An inshore fishing sampan with nets. The long oar was to push the boat along at low tide.
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SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY is a particular interest of mine, especially in the 1970s when I was, perhaps, the only amateur photographer in Penang focused on this. Shooting Koay Jetty was a by-the-by thing when I was shooting The Little India project. The photo-taking stopped, however, when I completed that project. And then, in 2004, there was a lot of publicity churned up about Koay Jetty and its impending demolition.I hadn’t visited the place in 25 years, and I was then...

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