LKF the Paradise

Wandering the cosmopolitan streets in LKF Central, which spanned the enticing night clubs and bars, I witnessed evocative puffs penetrating into my lens. Cups of wine have desperately driven the love seekers crazy, drunk and hysteric. This is a paradise. A paradise for lust.

         photo: The Puff, LKF Central HK, 2010

Ordinary Portraits

After devoting myself to a period of drastic activist undertakings, recently I spent a night to look back my back-up hard disk. These are the very first pictures I took about 20 months ago. Without the endeavor to capture those intense moments, these tranquil and “ingenuous” images appear to be easy-going, endowed a sense of peace and tenderness. There were no elements of confrontation, grief, and despair which would have hastened your breathe. They purely indicate ordinary moments that a local waiter had a puff out of the cigarette during a break, wreaths of smoke come from a cook, a village woman prepared the dinner for her family. 

Photography is similar to living. There should not be any dominant forces framing the content of this unique form of visual art. At the same time, your living should not be dominated. After dealing with those daily secular businesses, we have to take a break correspondingly. Meanwhile, as far as photography is concerned, the rewarding gift can be anything but heartbreaking images. This is true to me.

                                                                      Portraits in HK & Mainland, 2008-2009