Kindly, hard working, and wrapped up in his creative work and photographic activities, Teng neglected his business and had to close the Nankuang Camera Equipment Shop in 1960.
鄧南光知道如何去尋覓動人的人物與題材，他對職業貴賤或生涯哀樂的人物與處境並不給與價值或道德論斷，他作品中出現的人常常是單純的人、原型的人、深具個性與保有某種尊嚴的人，這就是他的影像令人感動的地方。