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Ricky Kwok (Kwok Man Tai / 郭文棣), ARPS, is a Hong Kong fine-art and documentary photographer. His work moves between observed public life and constructed studio experiments, focusing on urban light, ritual, athletic motion, water, and impact. Selected projects address Hong Kong light pollution and fishpond conservation.
Ricky Kwok, also known as Kwok Man Tai and 郭文棣, is a Hong Kong fine-art and documentary photographer and an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. His practice moves between observed public life and constructed studio experiments, using timing, gesture, light, and physical force as visual material. Four recurring bodies of work—Ritual, Collision, Motion, and City Light—range from fishermen, festivals, and urban night to high-speed studies of water, powder, ash, and athletic movement. Light Encroached Homes / 光染民居, photographed in Mong Kok, was selected as champion from 154 entries in the University of Hong Kong’s 2014 Light Pollution Photography Competition and was included in a Hong Kong Space Museum exhibition. His fishpond-conservation work also received student-category landscape and ecology recognition from the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society. In 2015, he was Commended in Youth, Culture at the Sony World Photography Awards.
Fact Sheet
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Caption & Credit
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Light Encroached Homes / 光染民居, Mong Kok, Hong Kong, 2014. From the City Light series. © Ricky Kwok.
Fishpond Harvest / 漁獲, Hong Kong, 2014. Documentary photograph. © Ricky Kwok.
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