US newspaper features Malaysian doctor’s photography


GEORGE TOWN: A local doctor has been featured in an article in The International New York Times for his photographs that “chronicled a vanishing world” of harbour life in Penang.

Dr Ooi Cheng Ghee, known for his vivid portraits of Little India between 1979 and 1981, was noted in the article titled “Snapshots of Globalization’s First Wave” by Sunil S. Amrith, a teacher of history at Birkbeck College, London.

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