Sajeev Digital Studio: Meet the quirky photographer in Little India taking equally offbeat portraits

The kitschy shophouse studio in Little India may be best known for helping migrant workers shoot portraits of themselves to find brides back home, but anyone is welcome for a"funny photo", which is how photographer K Sajeev Lal describes his style.

The entrance to Sajeev Digital Studio, run by K Sajeev Lal and his wife Sheeja Shaj, is hard to miss. Offbeat portraits, edited upon customers' requests, are plastered around the studio. In one photo, an Indian toddler wearing a sari poses between a pink and green genie, against a reddish gradient backdrop dotted with stars a la Microsoft PowerPoint 97.

“So many different background spoil already. So many tear. This one also got crack a lot. People step, step, walking, scratching,” he shared. “Time no fix one,” he added when asked about the duration of each session. “Depends on people. If they’re happy show them, then okay. If not happy, then take again, no problem.”Meanwhile, family photos are priced at S$360 to S$380 for a 16x20-inch portrait, depending on what frame they choose. Such family photos, however, are rare these days, so Sajeev added framing services post-pandemic to make up for the loss.

Although Sajeev couldn’t quite explain why photography makes him happy , he knew he loved taking photos from the time he was a teenager. He’d left for India as a child for over a decade to be with his sick mother and returned to Singapore just in time for National Service – and to discover his interest in photography.

“ roll is not easy, nobody can take 100 per cent. You don’t know the aperture, shutter, then take already no use, later blackout. Only school students for learning. Other than that, don’t have, people don’t want.”

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