Documenting yesteryear’s retailers
American travel and documentary photographer, Steve Golden, captures shops of the past
WAY before e-commerce became the norm and before malls became ubiquitous in Singapore, the local neighbourhood shop was where most people bought what they needed.
Often located in shophouses or at the foot of HDB blocks, they were often family-run stores that have since become a dying breed. We may not think much of them today, but for American travel and documentary photographer, Steve Golden, they are the subject of his book, Heritage Shops of Singapore.
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