Exhibitions
Innervisions Hong Kong - Pause, Mui Wo, from 1 March 2024
Borderless - HomeKong, October 2022 (Click to jump here)
Innervisions Hong Kong
Street Photography
From 1 March
Pause Café, Mui Wo
Inner Visions Hong Kong presents a whimsical and imaginative portrayal of the city we love. Through the use of reflections, abstract perspectives, and double exposure techniques, the images capture the introspective and tranquil side of our city. The effects in the images are produced in-camera and edits done in Capture One.
Credits
Model: Lylaaa.boo
Creative team: Calyn daSilva and @retoucher_anne (studio lighting and skin retouching)
Mentoring & Support: Michael Kistler, Alice Chong, David Cotton
The pieces
01
You'll Never Walk Alone
This eerie photo captures a pedestrian in the walkway by Southorn Stadium, with their ghostly reflection on the shiny wall tiles accompanying them. Effect created with deliberate camera movement.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Piece shown in Archival Lustre Paper on foam board (ready to frame) 105cm x 79cm plus 5cm border - HK$6,500
Other sizes and archival paper printing options available on request or order online here
02
Long Night in Hong Kong
Using deliberate camera movement to turn Hong Kong’s thousands of lights into waterfalls, our famous vertical cityscape blends with the curves of a lone female body lit in neon pink. (Overlay in post production).
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Piece shown in Aluminium Composite Printing 76cm x 50cm - HK$5,500
Other sizes and archival paper printing options available on request or order online here
03
Trapped in the Matrix
A lone female figure walking late at night just after a heavy summer thunderstorm is caught within the metal cages of the wet market stalls in North Point.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Piece shown in Aluminium Composite Printing 75cm x 60cm - HK$5,500
Other sizes and archival paper printing options available on request or order online here
04
Reflections Reflected
A lady shielding herself from the summer sun with an umbrella captures a reflection in water and glass at the Cultural Centre, creating “butterfly wings” from the unmistakable architecture. Single shot in camera.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Piece shown in Aluminium Composite Printing 76cm x 56cm - HK$5,500
Other sizes and archival paper printing options available on request or order online here
05
Geometric Dreams
In the walkways between the Cultural Center buildings, a man stands alone contemplating the corners, curves and angles carved into the architecture with crisp shadows and warm sunlight.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Piece shown in Aluminium Composite Printing 76cm x 56cm - HK$5,500
Other sizes and archival paper printing options available on request or order online here
06
Mui Wo Wing Mirror
Mui Wo’s celluloid colours, contours and textures collide in vivid trucks and green mountains in the wing mirror of a motorcycle, its shadow on the tiles reflecting the shape of the mountains.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Piece shown in Aluminium Composite Printing 76cm x 56cm - HK$5,500
Other sizes and archival paper printing options available on request or order online here
07
Tagged and For Hire
Hong Kong’s iconic taxi passing under a foot bridge becomes
embedded in a graffiti wall in Sheung Wan, as two sequential images collide. In-camera double exposure.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Piece shown in Aluminium Composite Printing 76cm x 50cm - HK$5,500
Other sizes and archival paper printing options available on request or order online here
08
Last Ride From Neon
Vivid, molten colours from the neon lights make high-drama reflections in a Mong Kok minibus in this cyberpunk, comic book image.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Piece shown in Aluminium Composite Printing 76cm x 56cm - HK$5,500
Other sizes and archival paper printing options available on request or order online here
09
Stream of Consciousness
A famous neon sign in Mong Kok freefalls into a high speed blur of colours and lines. Single shot with deliberate camera movement.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Piece shown in Aluminium Composite Printing 76cm x 56cm - HK$5,500
Other sizes and archival paper printing options available on request or order online here
Borderless
Portraits, October 2022
Borderless was a portrait photography exhibition running in October 2022 centred on the blurring and blending of different styles of photography and perspectives from the studio to the neon lights of Hong Kong's streets.
Borderless challenges the standard presentation of photographs
Borderless showcases multiple images to create movement and drama - the same image in different orientations, different images from the same shoot as a sequence, images from radically different shoots juxtaposed as a sequence. Complementing colours and contrasting subject matter create playful transitions from street to the studio in the same art piece. The artwork also toys with the processes of photography: the thought behind constructing a series of photographs that tell a story, the selection and editing of images from a shoot, how the same image can have different impacts depending on its scale and orientation and how images can be imagined as a double exposure (overlayed on top of each other).
Underpinning the exhibition is my focus on creating a feeling of movement and of harmony in contrasts, especially in the strength and fragility of faces, bodies and movements.
Tatler Asia says: "This photography exhibition captures the sensual fluidity of strong human bodies."
Credits
Models, dancers, subjects: Kiran Gill, Angel Wong, Hester Lo, Lylaaaboo, Jazi, Brice Henry
Creative team: Calyn daSilva & Lu Yao (lighting), @ting.creation & @notcute_makeup (MAU), Hester Lo (stylist), @retoucher-Anne (retouching), Lucas Yeung (graphic design)
Mentoring & Support: Michael Kistler, Alice Chong, David Cotton
The pieces
01
Long Night in Hong Kong
I'm a portrait and street photographer, they are always together in me. This abstract image of Hong Kong's famous skyline blends with a studio shot nude of a Hong Kong model in tonal colours.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Fine Art Pearl archival quality paper
Framed exhibition piece is signed first edition 80x53.3cm (image dimensions) and HK$9,800
Other editions available in paper only in 80x53.3cm and 60x40cm: order online here
02
Animal Flow
Movement is central in my photography, even for the stillest of portraits. This mini series shot back to back flows seamlessly from drama to power to peace.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Brilliant matt white archival quality paper
Framed exhibition piece is signed first edition 80x53.3cm (image dimensions) and HK$9,800
Other editions available in paper only in 80x53.3cm and 60x40cm: order online here
03
Strength in Pieces
We often limit photographs by only seeing them in their original orientation and as one. In this piece, repetition and reorientation add imagery to the strong but vulnerable and anonymous male portraits.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Fine Art Pearl archival quality paper
Framed exhibition piece is signed first edition 80x60cm (image dimensions) and HK$9,800
Other editions available in paper only in 80x60cm and 60x45cm: order online here
04
Rising Falling
One of my favourite photographs of a Hong Kong dancer repeats to emphasise her movement. Up or down, depending on how you see it.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Brilliant matt white archival quality paper
Framed exhibition piece is signed first edition 80x60cm (image dimensions) and HK$9,800
Other editions available in paper only in 80x60cm and 60x45cm: order online here
05
Heat of the Moment
In this triptych we see how small changes in posture create very different feelings in essentially the same shot, while the negative graphic invites you into the photographer's selection process.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Fine Art Pearl archival quality paper
Framed exhibition piece is signed first edition 80x53.3cm (image dimensions) and HK$9,800
Other editions available in paper only in 80x53.3cm and 60x40cm: order online here
06
Combination Reaction
This diptych juxtaposes a studio art nude and a Mong Kok street shot with deliberately tonal colours and hard graphic elements. They could be a double exposed (or overlayed) image.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Fine Art Pearl archival quality paper
Framed exhibition piece is signed first edition 80x53.3cm (image dimensions) and HK$9,800
Other editions available in paper only in 80x53.3cm and 60x40cm: order online here
07
Neon Face Off
Hong Kong street and studio blur together in this piece where two ladies face off in the colours of the reflected neon street sign.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Fine Art Pearl archival quality paper
Framed exhibition piece is signed first edition 80x60cm (image dimensions) and HK$9,800
Other editions available in paper only in 80x60cm and 60x45cm. Also available on white or cyan background: order online here
08
Shapes in Cyberpink
Grounded in the cyberpunk colours so often shot in Hong Kong's neon lit streets, the confident poses of two studio shot art nudes interact.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Fine Art Pearl archival quality paper
Framed exhibition piece is signed first edition 80x60cm (image dimensions) and HK$9,800
Other editions available in paper only in 80x60cm and 60x45cm. Also available on white or cyan background: order online here
09
Contact Portrait
A series of portraits shot at the height of Covid - each image has a mask of shadows partly concealing the face. The contact print context invites you into the selection process that photographers go through.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Brilliant matt white archival quality paper
Framed exhibition piece is signed first edition 80x53.3cm (image dimensions) and HK$9,800
Other editions available in paper only in 80x53.3cm and 60x40cm: order online here
10
Fashion Reel
Black and white, colour, sizes and orientations blend and blur on a contact print playing with the selection and editing process.
Limited edition of 15 signed by the artist
Brilliant matt white archival quality paper
Framed exhibition piece is signed first edition 80x53.3cm (image dimensions) and HK$9,800
Other editions available in paper only in 80x53.3cm and 60x40cm: order online here
