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INSIGHT CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Bringing back the kebaya with Melissa Sasidaran and Lyana Khairuddin; Lim Kit Siang, Malaysia’s influential political figure; Kenny Loh chatting with a villager; Mr Osman Mydin, record shop manager in Penang; Thirunavu Karusu, a second generation barber in Ipoh 18 · WWW.<strong>GOASIAPLUS</strong>.COM
INSIGHT “It took me 3 years of travelling and gathering everyone’s personal story into a book. It was a long journey.” Malaysia has come a long way since independence from that one fateful day when our first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, chanted ‘Merdeka’ for seven times with the echoing cries of Malaysians at Dataran Merdeka. The same heightened sense of patriotic spirit surrounds Kenny today as he agreed to share his photographer’s journey in his published ‘Born in Malaysia’ photobook with us. Unknown to him, I was beyond excited to meet the talent who remind us of the pillars and backbone of this country. People say a picture is worth a thousand words. For Kenny, it explores something beyond. It is an on-going attempt to capture the daily lives of people by passionately sharing their memories that we never would have known. After spending more than 20 years abroad, Kenny revisits his homeland and places in his childhood memories, not as a tourist but as a traveller that would unfold and revive the many narratives in Malaysia. “It took me 3 years of travelling and gathering everyone’s personal story into a book. It was a long journey.” Considering the courage it takes to get people you just met to share their personal lives, it is amazing how Kenny who started out as a shy quiet boy in his schooling days, found out that he can get people to smile behind camera. “The camera is my cloak and security blanket to know a lot of people,” Kenny laughingly puts it adding that it was an interest he learned from watching his father taking photographs during his childhood days. “Having worked at NGOs in China and previously as a fashion photographer, my project ‘Born in Malaysia’ is more intimate as it gives room for individual stories with aspirations for diversity.” “The people who helped mould Malaysia into what is it today is slowly forgotten. Such as one is my barber at where I grew up. He used to cut my hair in the past WWW.<strong>GOASIAPLUS</strong>.COM · 19
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