Photobook
2023
86 Pages
21 x 21cm
Digital Print on Loop 118gsm Paper
Coptic Stitch Binding
43 Black and White Analog Photographs shot on 6×6 and 35mmm film
Complementary original Medium Format Negative for each copy
Limited Edition of 3
Printed at Printing Room Hong Kong
places of certain significance
This photo project traces back the artist’s time in Hong Kong and the experiences he made there over these two years. It represents an attempt at creating a somewhat comprehensive documentation of the places visited, places where certain experiences were made, or simply places that stayed in the artist’s memory just by themselves, without necessarily any significant moment attached to them. And while this project is a very personal one in that it condenses a most significant time of the artist’s life, it mostly just remains a seemingly random accumulation of images for others who have not shared a moment with him in one of these places. Still, these images are able to evoke certain things in others too, make them wonder why a certain place is included, what might have happened there, or even make them wonder about their own places that have a certain significance to them. Every place can be of certain significance for someone, no matter how seemingly bland or mundane it is.
All pictures in this book are shot on analog black and white film with the square pictures being shot on 6×6 medium format film specifically for this project over a span of two months in October and November of 2023. The double spreads, as well as the pictures usually printed on the left, are shot on 35mm film and are archival images that have been taken during the two years in Hong Kong. By including these images, the artist tries to expand on simply revisiting places around Hong Kong and broaden the meaning of a certain place, give more context, or add a more personal note to it. In total, this book contains 43 photographs of which 31 are medium format and twelve 35mm pictures.