這個光怪陸離的世界，由意大利藝術家 Maurizio Cattelan 與攝影師 Pierpaolo Ferrari 所創作。兩人於2010年創辦影像刊物《TOILETPAPER》，以近乎沒有文字、全圖像的編排，讓讀者自行詮釋照片。Maurizio Cattelan 擅長挑戰藝術慣例，Pierpaolo Ferrari 則熟悉廣告與時尚攝影，兩人把日常物件拍得鮮豔誘人，以怪誕且奇幻的廣告視覺元素，加點荒誕，批評及反思各種消費文化。
最先讓我停下來的，是藍格子餐布上插著釘子的麵包和荷包蛋。第一眼，我仍想像著麵包的鬆軟，下一刻，尖銳的釘子卻使這份食慾變成刺痛，讓廣告神話露出破綻：麵包依然誘人，釘子卻使那份好吃、理想生活之承諾無法順利成立。接著，來到巨大的香蕉泳池，又忍不住噗嗤一笑。隨即，眼球又給可愛的狗狗布簾抓住，掀開走進去卻迎來密布的蛇；再看到「THE END」墓碑與紅燈光：「TELL THE TRUTH RUN」，輕鬆的心情漸漸滲入不安。
出席深圳灣美術館開幕的攝影師 Pierpaolo Ferrari 說：「對我們而言，這就像一場實驗。很多照片都像科學實驗，或者說是社會學實驗，我們嘗試觀察不同觀看方式、文化背景之間所產生的反應。」聽到這裡，我才洞悉到，自己從好奇、省思、惶恐等過程亦是實驗的一部分；相同畫面，有人覺得幽默，有人感到不適，未必需要得到一致的答案。
展覽《流光鉑影·牛池灣》(Ngau Chi Wan: Elegy in Platinum) 展出多幅Jason拍攝的作品，他選擇以十九世紀的古典工藝「鉑鈀印相」（Platinum-Palladium Print），將這些即將消逝的景象定格。在沉穩的黑白階調與歷史的重量之間，展開一場關於時間與回憶的對話。
Jason Lau Solo Exhibition at DEVEDO Ngau Chi Wan: Elegy in Platinum
The texture of memory is often most poignant when it is on the verge of vanishing.
With over two centuries of history, Ngau Chi Wan is one of the oldest remaining villages in urban Hong Kong—a testament to generations of agricultural life and close-knit community warmth. Just a lane away from the old market beyond the Ngau Chi Wan Village archway, the village is facing its final days. Stepping inside, visitors are greeted by rows of tin-roofed houses; the steamers of the once-bustling Sun Lung Shing Tea House are long gone. As the hustle and bustle fades, how do we say farewell?
Hong Kong photographer Jason Lau excels at capturing the minutiae of everyday life through a calm, gentle lens. After spending more than a decade abroad, Lau returned to Hong Kong last year, and he frequently photographs the streets, alleys, and public housing estates. Among these locations, Ngau Chi Wan Village left the deepest impression.
Wandering through its narrow alleyways, he focused his lens on the subtle details that easily pass unnoticed: half-open tin mailboxes that no longer receive mail, deserted benches once filled with lively chatter, and dilapidated corners strewn with fallen leaves—creating scenes of ethereal beauty reminiscent of traditional ink paintings. Like silent ruins, these images reflect the solitude that lingers after prosperity fades. Through precise composition, Jason captures the quiet beauty of imperfection.
His first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, Ngau Chi Wan: Elegy in Platinum, showcases these photographs and preserves disappearing memories through platinum-palladium printing. Moving between black-and-white tonal transitions and the weight of history, these images open a dialogue on time, memory, and forgetting.
Invented in the 19th century, platinum-palladium printing is a complex classical photographic process. Unlike modern silver-gelatin or inkjet prints—where the image rests on a surface emulsion or coating—a platinum-palladium print chemically binds noble metal particles directly into the paper’s cellulose fibers. It offers exceptional chemical stability and resistance to oxidation, these images can endure for centuries. Beyond their permanence, they possess a distinct texture, rendering rich shadows and subtle grayscale transitions with remarkable depth and softness.
Revisiting Ngau Chi Wan Village evokes a striking contrast. The quiet squatter area stands in sharp relief against the modern high-rises nearby. As night falls, the Ngau Chi Wan Old Wet Market across the street remains brightly lit and bustling with diners at Dai Pai Dong. In contrast, the village itself lies mostly in darkness, home to only a few remaining households before new residential buildings replace it.
Ngau Chi Wan: Elegy in Platinum is more than a photography exhibition; it is an elegy for a disappearing urban village. Though light shifts and structures crumble, these memories imprinted deep within platinum print will endure.
Exhibition Details Date: Sept 12 – Oct 3, 2026 Time: 2–7 PM (Wednesday–Saturday, by Appointment) Venue: DEVEDO, 6J, Block 2 Kingley Industrial Building, 33 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Jason is a Hong Kong-based photographer and platinum/palladium printer. A graduate of the ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles, he is deeply passionate about platinum and palladium printing and founded Charta Loquens Studio in Hong Kong to promote this traditional photographic technique.
DEVEDO is one of Hong Kong’s distinguished photography bookstores, founded in July 2025 by LAU Tung-Pui, photography curator and founder of the Hong Kong photography platform PhotogStory. In addition to offering a wide selection of photography books, DEVEDO also regularly hosts photography talks and exhibitions.
由相機品牌 OM SYSTEM × 藝文資訊平台 art-mate 共同策劃的跨媒介城市創作計劃——《城市有幾種光》攝影展，邀來五位來自不同藝術背景的創作者，分為有劇場導演、爵士樂手、形體藝術家、燈光設計師與視覺藝術家，他們共同以OM-3相機作為創作工具，在他們各自的觀景器裡，香港這座多姿多彩的城市，折射出截然不同的光芒。
今年六月，他推出作品集《City of Lights》，輯錄數百幅從未公開的經典照片，可謂見證香港霓虹招牌的輝煌歷史。本書除了攝影作品，更深入發掘光影背後的匠人故事，收錄多位傳承霓虹技藝的前輩訪談，包括親手燒製玻璃光管的資深師傅、勇於高空作業的招牌安裝技師，以及致力守護霓虹文化未來的保育者與新生代創作者。
英國攝影師Keith Macgregor最新攝影集《City of Lights》, 黃竹坑攝影書店「顯影堂」有售。
DEVEDO 1st Anniversary Exhibition – The Reflection of Soul by Yang Yankang
DEVEDO is pleased to present The Reflection of Soul, a solo exhibition by Chinese photographer Yang Yankang, in celebration of the bookshop’s first anniversary, on view from July 10 to August 15, 2026. The exhibition centers on faith as lived and observed among monks and laypeople in the Tibetan regions. Hailed as a milestone in contemporary Tibetan photography, the work documents daily life while also exploring the relationship between people and their beliefs.
Yang Yankang (1954-) is a rare photographer who has devoted himself to photographing religious beliefs. Beginning in the 1990s, he spent thirty years photographing Catholics, Tibetan Buddhists, and Muslims, completing his “Faith Trilogy” as a mission. His lens avoids sensationalism and the exotic, instead recording the lives of believers with different faiths in China.
His photographs are not typical spectacular landscapes but rather delicate and moving images. Without seeking quick success, Yang spent ten years from 2003 to 2013 immersing himself in Tibetan life, repeatedly venturing into the region to experience the local people’s lives, observing and recording their most authentic daily routines. These images are serene yet imbued with poetry.
During the years, Yang not only photographed the lives of Tibetan people but also focused on Buddhist monks, documenting how they live their faith and how they steadfastly uphold their beliefs in practice. Through his lens, monks recite scriptures, play with toy cars, blow the Dharma Conch, play with cats, and perform Tibetan opera. The often unattainable and sacred image of Tibetan Buddhism becomes serene and approachable in these moments.
Yang consistently maintains a rigorous, refined composition that forms the foundation of his visual language. However, this rigor does not detract from the lyricism of his images. On the contrary, he successfully captures visual drama and implicit poetry within the monks’ mundane daily lives. A sacred light shines through the details of everyday life, radiating a serene and profound spiritual aura and evoking a moving sentiment.
The photographer was fully immersed rather than merely an observer and became a follower of Tibetan Buddhism during these years. For him, photography was a continuous process of feeling and understanding, moving from observation to conversion; like a lamb returning home, he found strength in the process.
When photography itself is elevated to the level of the photographer’s personal faith, taking pictures becomes a practice of faith. In this sense, these images can also be read as a reflection of Yang Yankang’s own experiences and life.
Exhibition Details
Date: July 10– August 15, 2026
Time: 2:00–7:00 PM (Wednesday–Saturday, by Appointment)
Yang Yankang was born in 1954 in Guizhou Province and is now based in Chengdu. He began his photography career in the 1980s and has been represented by the VU agency since 2001.
As a prominent contemporary Chinese documentary photographer acclaimed for his deep, decade-long explorations of faith and spirituality, Yang is best known for his monumental photographic trilogy that captures religious life in China, including Catholicism in Shaanxi (The Poor in Spirit), Tibetan Buddhism (The Reflection of Soul), and Islam in northwestern China (Star and Moon).
DEVEDO 顯影堂
DEVEDO is one of Hong Kong’s distinguished photography bookstores, founded in July 2025 by LAU Tung-Pui, photography curator and founder of the Hong Kong photography platform PhotogStory. In addition to offering a wide selection of photography books, DEVEDO also regularly hosts photography talks and exhibitions.
展覽《間まMA：Ryuichi by Rensis》迴響熱烈，也促成作品集《Ryuichi Sakamoto 1998》的誕生，是顯影堂踏足攝影出版的首個企劃。這些影像猶如1998年教授的「香港篇章」，因此設計靈感以唱片為概念，外觀恍如一張黑膠，裏面包括一本36頁攝影集、一張24吋海報，以及一張沒有音樂但充滿禪意的12吋密紋唱片。
「一格一隅 a frame a corner」由台灣攝影師蕭希如與 Jason共同創立，名稱來自影像中的片段與角落概念。空間以實驗性與跨領域創作為核心，關注攝影、展覽、藝術計畫與品牌合作等多元形式。透過自由開放的策展方式，嘗試讓藝術回到更貼近日常與真實感受的狀態。
DEVEDO Presents Ryuichi Sakamoto 1998 Revisited in Taipei
exhibiting Hong Kong Photographer Rensis Ho’s Portrait of Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1998
It all began in January 1998, when Ryuichi Sakamoto stepped into a photography studio inside a Hong Kong Tong Lau (tenement building).
Having debuted in 1978 with the legendary Japanese electronic group YMO, Sakamoto gained his worldwide recognition through film scores in the 1980s and 1990s. Back in 1998, the 46-year-old musical maestro visited Hong Kong to promote the international version of his album, Discord, and did an interview with MAGPAPER.
Across his many albums, his ever-changing styles radiated a unique personality and charm; however, through Hong Kong photographer Rensis Ho’s lens, he appeared as a relaxed man of few words, yet full of wisdom.
In the photographer’s studio, there was no preset script—only a minimalist backdrop. Sakamoto revealed a natural side of himself before the camera: at times staring directly into the lens, at others lying casually, and even playing affectionately with the photographer’s dog.
Rensis Ho, skilled at capturing the unique expressions of his subjects, photographed Sakamoto resting his chin on his hand or running his fingers through his hair. Looking back years later, Rensis still vividly remembers their encounter, describing him as a thoughtful and charismatic artist. Recalling the details of that day, he says, “His movements were very impromptu and chic, and I captured his different auras through the lens.”
These images, which had long lain dormant in a defunct magazine since 1998, were finally exhibited in full last year at the Hong Kong bookstore and space DEVEDO in 2025. This was not only a re-emergence of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s portraits but also a temporal echo shared between the composer and the city.
The exhibition, titled MA: Ryuichi by Rensis, received an enthusiastic response, leading to the creation of the photo book Ryuichi Sakamoto 1998. This marked DEVEDO’s first venture into photography publishing.
These images were imagined as Sakamoto’s uncharted “Hong Kong Music Note,” and the design was inspired by the concept of a vinyl record, which includes a 36-page booklet, a 24-inch poster, and a 12-inch vinyl that contains s no music but a zen of silence.
Nearly three decades later, these negatives have been transformed into an exquisite photo book. Rensis’s portraits of Ryuichi Sakamoto are now traveling from Hong Kong to Taiwan, with an exhibition at the Taipei arts space, a frame a corner, this May.
Titled Ryuichi Sakamoto 1998 Revisited, the exhibition represents a layered dialogue across time. By re-photographing the original negatives and collaging the images, Rensis Ho does not merely document the past, but also deconstructs and mends the fragments of memory through a ‘present’ lens.
This exhibition in Taipei is like a private interlude or a gentle prelude. In Rensis’s images, we can almost hear that quiet, Zen-like melody from that winter day in a Hong Kong tenement.
Ryuichi Sakamoto 1998 Revisited
Date: 2026.05.30-06.28
Time: 2-8pm (Thursday to Sunday)
Venue: a frame a corner, 2 F., No. 142, Sec. 3, Bade Rd.,
Songshan Dist., Taipei City 105046, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
About Rensis HO
Over the past three decades, Rensis Ho has photographed countless celebrities, including actresses Isabella Rossellini and Chloé Sevigny, model Kate Moss, and Pharrell Williams. He has also photographed Hong Kong stars like Anita Mui and Stephen Chow. Rensis specializes in both still life and portraiture, believing that capturing the subject’s inner qualities is paramount, a quality evident in his black-and-white images.
About DEVEDO
顯影堂 DEVEDO is one of Hong Kong’s distinguished photography bookstores, founded in July 2025 by LAU Tung-Pui, photography curator and founder of the Hong Kong photography platform PhotogStory. In addition to offering a wide selection of photography books, DEVEDO also regularly hosts photography talks and exhibitions.
DEVEDO is pleased to present When The Shutter Closes, a solo exhibition by Hong Kong photographic artist Daphne Alexis Ho, on view from June 6 to July 4, 2026.
When the shutter closes, something ends — yet something else inevitably begins. In the exhibition, Ho considers whether a photograph ever truly reaches completion, or whether each image continues to unfold beyond the moment of capture.
The exhibition brings together three interconnected series — UNSTILL, TEAR, and STILL. Rather than treating the photograph as a fixed record, Ho approaches it as both surface and object, capable of change. What happens after the image is taken becomes central: the photograph is not an endpoint, but the beginning of another process.
In UNSTILL, granulated natural pigments of white, black gold, and black silver scatter across monochromatic landscapes. The pigments disrupt the image’s apparent stillness, loosening its structure and introducing movement and uncertainty. Landscapes hover between formation and dispersal, suggesting that the photographic image is never entirely static.
The TEAR series extends this inquiry through acts of rupture and repair. Photographs are torn and meticulously rejoined along seams traced with gold pigment. Fractures remain visible; what first appears as damage becomes a careful act of restoration. The works hold destruction and mending in tension, revealing the photograph as both vulnerable and enduring.
By contrast, the works in the STILL series remain untouched. Their stillness is not a refusal of change, but an acceptance of what already exists. Without intervention, these images suggest that completion may reside within the photograph itself — a quiet presence that requires no further alteration.
Across the three series, Ho reflects on impermanence and transformation. Whether altered or left intact, each photograph exists in a state of becoming. Completion is not presented as a fixed conclusion, but as an awareness that emerges through sustained looking and attention.
Exhibition Details
Date: June 6 – July 4, 2026
Time: 2:00–7:00 PM (Wednesday–Saturday, by appointment)
Venue: DEVEDO, 6J, Block 2 Kingley Industrial Building, 33 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Daphne Alexis Ho
Daphne received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2011) and Master of Fine Arts (2014), co-presented by Hong Kong Art School and RMIT University, and a Doctor of Philosophy (2018) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia.
DEVEDO 顯影堂
DEVEDO is one of Hong Kong’s distinguished photography bookstores, founded in July 2025 by LAU Tung-Pui, photography curator and founder of the Hong Kong photography platform PhotogStory. In addition to offering a wide selection of photography books, DEVEDO also regularly hosts photography talks and exhibitions.
Artist Statement
When the Shutter Closes
In When the Shutter Closes, I explore when — or whether — a photographic work can ever be considered complete. Through three series — UNSTILL, TEAR, and STILL — I trace the life of an image after the moment of capture. Each gesture, from scattering paints to mending ruptures or leaving a photograph untouched, becomes a way to listen to the photograph’s unfolding, to what continues beyond the visible frame.
I am drawn to the uncertain space between image and awareness. The act of photography often suggests finality, yet for me it is the beginning of dialogue and transformation. I am interested in what happens in the interval after the shutter closes: an invisible moment of stillness where meaning shifts, disperses, and quietly begins again.
My work is guided by the Japanese aesthetic sensibility of ma — the living pause, the space between moments where things breathe and become. This sense of openness echoes through my process: layering, tearing, and waiting. Photography, for me, is a contemplative practice — a search for the balance between action and rest, completion and continuation. Within that space, I find the rhythm of my work — discovered only when the shutter closes.
3. Outtake的照片先不要刪除，多年後看可能有新的想法。 當你以某種標準去看照片時，它可能是不及格的作品，但並不代表它是不好的。1972年，森山大道出版攝影集《写真よさようなら》（Shashin yo Sayonara），書中收錄的，就是他過往棄用或忽略的照片，看似毫無關聯，也缺乏敘事性，道出現實世界與其影像之間的割裂感。
