Yip Cheong Fun [SEP] place of death
Yip Cheong Fun
Yip Cheong Fun (; 1903 – 16 September 1989) was an influential Singaporean documentary photographer, best known for his photograph "Rowing at Dawn", which was taken in 1957 in celebration of Singapore obtaining self-government, and which in his words, was to show "the dawn of a new day, new hope and new life for Singapore".
Although better known and admired for his seascapes, Yip Cheong Fun also took a lot of other award-winning photographs depicting different facets of Singaporeans
works together with his own poems at a stall near the Chinatown Heritage Center, described the elder Yip's photographic works on the website he has created for his father: “He (Yip Cheong Fun) understood how photography can be a great medium not just to record truth and beauty, but to capture the defining moments of the changes that affect all of us in any human situation, and to interpret the dynamic interplay of the elements that constitute life and the human spirit.” Indeed, the humanistic approach to photography was