As I visited the festival, the series that attracted me was the After School, done by Lau Chi-Chung.
These are the 2 photos that I took when I visited the festival.
As you can see from the photos that the subject is someone wearing a school uniform, blindfolded, playing around hide and seek in a deserted area. In the second photos, the place was kinda like an old classroom which already being destroyed and books were all over the place.
What I first thought of the series was the sense of struggle as a student. The photographer portray the student as someone who always looking for fun ( that's why it's playing hide and seek ) yet being constraint in a frame of studying.
I'm curious about the gender of the subject when I first looked at the photo, it's like a boy in a girl's school uniform. Is it some kind of connotation? Besides, I wondered how the photographer came out with this idea because I never really thought that it's a way to portray a student, and this would be the question that I will be asking him if he was there.
Part 2
The photographs in the festival are presented separately in 14 different locations. Most of them are mounted on hard material and presented in eye level.
I think that the curators grouped up different types of photographs and separated them into different genre to display to create certain cohesion when the viewer was viewing the photos. All the photos are displayed in different sizes, some of them are small and with more pieces of works, and some of them were printed in a larger scale.
I think the festival was a great place for people to really present their work to the world and kinda make up a name from it. It's a very good opportunity for exposure and also a way of learning. As a student who visited, it actually deepen my knowledge on the understanding of contemporary photography and always think out of the box when we are trying to create something, there's always someway that will work out and we just haven't realised.
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