2024 King’s Road Photo Odyssey ｜2024 英皇道攝影漫遊

Guide | Lau Chi Chung

Time | 2024/11/24 2:30pm - 4:30pm

Location | Oi!, North Point to Quarry Bay

Language | Cantonese

Fee | $100 (refundable after attending the event)

Lau Chi Chung’s installation artwork The Dayspring of Eternity revolves around the existence and disappearance of the State Theatre on King’s Road in North Point, meticulously depicting Lau’s childhood memories of the site. To Lau, the neighbourhood of North Point is the product of Shanghainese and Fujianese immigrants who moved south in the 1940s and 1950s, once embodying the prosperity and vibrancy of life in Hong Kong. Over seventy years later, people and things have inevitably changed, yet traces of the past remain. Lau will personally lead a stroll along King’s Road from North Point to Quarry Bay, narrating the little stories behind his installation art along the way.

嚮導 ｜劉智聰

時間 ｜2024/11/24 2:30pm - 4:30pm

地點 ｜北角油街實現至鰂魚涌

語言 ｜粵語

費用 ｜$100（留位費，出席活動後可全數退回）

劉智聰的裝置藝術，以皇都戲院的存在與消逝為主軸，細緻展現劉氏在英皇道上度過小學生涯及區內工作的種種回憶。在劉氏眼中，北角由上世紀四五十年代南來的上海及福建人一手創建，反映香港繁華和多姿多采的一面。經過逾七十年洗禮，人與物必然變改，唯舊日痕跡猶在。劉氏將帶領大家沿英皇道漫步，以油街起步，至鰂魚涌為終點，細道裝置藝術背後的小故事，為大家點出值得拍照存念的風物和景致。

About the Guide

Lau Chi Chung is a visual artist and avid collector of old Hong Kong textbooks. He is fascinated by stories relating to Hong Kong’s history and vernacular culture. After graduating from The Surry Institute of Art & Design University College with a BFA in Interior Design in 1999, Lau worked in the television commercial industry as an art director before becoming a full- time artist. Although Lau started out with short films, he has mostly workes within photography and has exhibited in various international photo festivals. His photography series Landscaped Artefacts(2013) gained him the New Photography Artist of the year from Lianzhou Foto Festival in 2013. Lau received third prize of Hong Kong 1st Photobook Dummy Award at the 2021 at Hong Kong Photobook Festival for his latest work, The Dayspring of Eternity.

關於響導

劉智聰為視覺藝術家和舊課本收藏家，喜愛香港歷史文化相關故事。劉氏1999年畢業於英國薩里藝術設計學校（室內設計系學士），從事電視廣告美術指導工作多年，同時積極投入個人藝術創作，由早年拍攝獨立短片到近十多年專注於攝影創作。作品曾於不同的國際攝影節展出，與及獲博物館和私人收藏家收藏。當中攝影作品《山水文明》系列 (2013) 獲得連州國際攝影節新攝影年度藝術家獎，另外最新作品《黎明請你不要來 》(2021) 亦獲得第一屆香港攝影樣本書獎銅獎。

The Hong Kong Photographic Culture Association is financially supported by the Art Development Matching Grants Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The content of this activity does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

香港攝影文化協會獲香港特別行政區政府「藝術發展配對資助計劃」的資助。活動內容並不反映香港特別行政區政府的意見。

Host or Publisher Hong Kong International Photo Festival