Mong Kok · 2014
Light Encroached Homes / 光染民居
The location search, fisheye decision and environmental context behind a photograph of commercial light pressing against residential life.
Photography Journal
Field notes from the work behind the frame.
First-person accounts of location, process, editing and the questions that continue after a photograph is made.
From Ricky
A finished photograph hides most of the decisions that produced it.
I use these notes to return to what sits outside the final frame: how I found a location, why I chose a particular angle, what failed, what changed in the edit and what I understand differently now. Where an institutional record or research source establishes a fact, I identify it separately from my own recollection.
The subjects move between Hong Kong's urban light, environmental and documentary projects, motion, ritual and constructed studio collisions. The purpose is not to explain every image, but to preserve the evidence and choices that help a photograph remain legible over time.
Current Reading
Project evidence and working methods.
Begin with two Hong Kong projects whose public records connect individual photographs to place, then follow the visual language into the studio.
Hong Kong Fishponds
Fishpond Harvest / 漁獲
A conservation project record connecting the working fishpond landscape, four photographs and the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society's documented results.
Working Language
The instant as material
A first-person statement on documentary observation, constructed impact, motion, ritual and Hong Kong urban light.
Collision Series
Time under pressure
Water, powder, ash, shell and flame become temporary sculptural forms inside fractions of a second.
Research and Editorial Use
Need a project record, caption or interview?Press and curatorial materials provide approved biographies, artwork details and direct inquiry routes.