Nicole Seah takes wefie with shy little girl who tailed her in Bedok, sends pic to her parent's mobile phone

The little girl didn't have a mobile phone.

Belmont Lay | July 03, 2020, 02:40 AM

A fleeting moment during this GE2020 hustings at Bedok 85, a.k.a. Fengshan Market & Food Centre, has been immortalised for good in a photo.

The tender exchange between Workers' Party's East Coast GRC candidate Nicole Seah and a little girl who kept following her during the walkabout was captured in a photo and posted on Facebook on July 1.

The photo was taken by Edwin Koo, one of the foremost photographers in Singapore when it comes to capturing stills of spontaneous moments during periodic historic elections.

Koo wrote about the encounter as he witnessed it first-hand:

At today's evening walkabout at 85 Fengshan, I noticed Nicole spending quite a bit of time speaking with a young girl at the hawker centre. When I asked her, she said she had noticed the little girl following her around the hawker centre. She then asked the girl if she wanted to ask a question or take a photo with her. The shy girl nodded but she didn't have a mobile phone, so Nicole took a wefie with her and asked for her parent's number, so that she could send the photo to her. This is what I often like to allude to in my photography classes: don't just take a photo, make a photo together.

Although it might not seem like much, such an interaction can have a profound impact on the girl, who is nowhere near voting age, but has been given the time of day by someone she looks up to.

Koo's unique monochrome photography of Singaporean subjects is highly-recognisable.

You can view Koo's other recent shots of the East Coast GRC team in action here:

Top photo via Edwin Koo