Seetoh Kok Fye (born 1962), better known as KF Seetoh, is a Singaporean

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critic and photographer. The fourth of five children, Seetoh attended

St. Joseph's Institution St. Joseph's Institution (SJI) is an independent Catholic educational institution in Singapore. Founded in 1852 by the De La Salle Brothers, it is the first Catholic school and the third oldest school in the country. SJI has been offering a dual ...

and the Baharuddin Vocational Institute. Beginning in 1983, he worked as a photographer ''

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'', but left in 1990 to establish his own photographic studio. In 1998, Seetoh and Lim Moh Cher founded Makansutra (a

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combining " makan" and "

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"), a food guide publisher dedicated to

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. In 2008, Seetoh was awarded the Special Recognition Award by the

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. Seetoh collaborated with Urbanspace, a company managing food halls in the United States, to open a Singaporean hawker centre, near

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, New York, in 2022. On Dec 21 2024, Seetoh's brother Kwok Meng died in a suspected gas explosion in his holiday villa in Italy.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seetoh, KF 1962 births Living people Saint Joseph's Institution, Singapore alumni Singaporean photojournalists