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。
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.
In Buddhist teachings, This Shore refers to the Sahā world—the realm of sentient beings where suffering and desire reside. The Other Shore, by contrast, symbolizes an ideal realm beyond, a state of spiritual liberation and enlightenment. Within the realm of photography, This Shore may be seen as the tangible world we live in, while The Other Shore becomes a metaphor for transcendence—an inner pursuit of vision and spirit through the image.
In the works of three Hong Kong artists—Alex Chung, WONG Wo Bik, and Man Tin—image becomes a vessel that voyages across the boundaries of reality. Whether through Chung’s infrared photography, WONG’s AI-generated images, or Man Tin’s visuals using Gaussian Splatting, each artist traverses the threshold between the visible and the unseen, arriving at their own Other Shore of the image.
Then, what color is The Other Shore? In the works of these artists, it is, without doubt, blue—the deep, tranquil hue of cyanotype. As an early photographic printing process, cyanotype exudes a classical, contemplative elegance. In the twenty-first century, this technique has been renewed through diverse contemporary expressions—from Alex Chung’s cyanotypes on glass plate and Man Tin’s simulated digital cyanotypes to WONG Wo Bik’s cyanotype-flower sculptures. Cyanotype here becomes an alchemy of the image—fusing lived experience, nature, and visual illusion into an act of meditation.
Each artist’s work resonates with Buddhist thought in invisible ways. This Shore is the world of delusion and distress; The Other Shore is the realm of liberation beyond. Alex Chung imagines what his father might have seen at the threshold of life and death—fields of flowers, spectral silhouettes in mist, or perhaps the blazing radiance of a Buddha. With an infrared camera, he captures that liminal moment, using transparent glass to bear the invisible spectrum of light—images of the soul itself, revealing the ambiguity between being and dissolution. Mist, light, blossoms, and heat shimmer as omens of the Other Shore.
WONG Wo Bik’s work draws inspiration from King Hu’s film Raining in the Mountain—a cinematic meditation that unites Buddhist philosophy with martial-arts elements. Extending her engagement with classical cinema, she translates the film’s reverence for nature into an immersive visual hymn. Folding cyanotype images into floral forms and intertwining them with AI-generated imagery and moving images, she composes a multisensory environment where vision, sound, craft, and technology converge.
Man Tin’s work re-envisions Hong Kong’s highest peak—Tai Mo Shan—and the Bodhisattva statue at the Ling Wan Monastery in Kwun Yam Shan in the nearby area. Through digital reconstruction, he reflects upon the arising and passing away of form under causation. The visuals become a meditation on impermanence, dependent origination, and transformation.
This exhibition adopts cyanotype as both a medium and a metaphor—a luminous bridge between This Shore and The Other Shore. Through varied technological vocabularies, the artists reconstruct worlds beyond, transforming the image from material representation into a spiritual symbol, and their works invite viewers into a contemplative space.
由香港攝影平台「顯影 PhotogStory」創辦人劉東佩在2025年成立的「顯影堂 DEVEDO」，是香港罕有專注攝影書籍的書店。店內除了出售多種攝影書籍，也會定期舉辦攝影相關講座及舉辦攝影展，繼首個攝影展覽《間まMa：Ryuichi by Rensis》後，現正舉辦多媒介作品展《探｜二人三觸》。
【DEVEDO Exhibition】
CHAN DICK × LIGHTIME BLOSSOMING The Trek: When Body Encounters Ink
How do you sense the presence of your own body?
In The Trek: When Body Encounters Ink, Hong Kong photographer CHAN DICK and calligrapher LIGHTIME BLOSSOMING trace the unseen landscapes of the body through the dialogue of lens and brush.
This exhibition unfolds as an intimate dialogue between image, ink, and breath. Through layered seeing and feeling, it transforms the body from an object of observation into the origin of perception itself.
CHAN DICK’s photographs approach the body with quiet tenderness. Lungs branch like trees, the pelvis rises like distant peaks, and the greater omentum drifts like a translucent veil. These are not anatomy lessons but living landscapes within. Gazing at them, you are drawn inward to traverse your own inner body scenery.
Printed on SKIN fine art paper, the photographs evoke tactile intimacy. In response, LIGHTIME BLOSSOMING inscribes the names of body parts on skin-toned cicada paper, letting each ink stroke breathe upon the image like a second layer of skin. Only by gently lifting the paper can viewers uncover what lies beneath—an act akin to touching their own depths.
Together, the two artists bridge photography and calligraphy to explore the body’s dual nature—its material and spiritual aspects. The lens captures the texture of flesh, while the brush grants language to sensation. Their collaboration invites us to ask how we recognize its quiet presence in daily life.
The Trek – When Body Encounters Ink Date: 2026.02.06 – 03.07 Time: 2-7pm (Wednesday-Saturday, By Appointment) Venue: 顯影堂 DEVEDO , 6J, Block 2 Kingley Industrial Building, 33 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang.
Hong Kong-based photographer CHAN DICK was fascinated by simple lines and minimalistic compositions. Chan’s works often explore the ambiguous attraction between reality and illusion, as in the photobooks I SEE and The Trek.
His iconic series “Chai Wan Fire Station” won first prizes at both the Tokyo International Foto Awards and the Hong Kong Photo Book Awards. This series was exhibited in Japan and the Netherlands and is now in the collections of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and Japan’s Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography in Nara City.
LIGHTIME BLOSSOMING
Lightime Blossoming, founded by 33 (“saam 1 saam 1”), is a creative brand focusing on calligraphy and graphic design in Hong Kong. 33 has been working on calligraphy, drawing on traditional Chinese calligraphy as a foundation to transform and incorporate her own imagination and ideas.
By indicating the image’s structure, rhythm, and solids and voids, she practises the diversity of changes in thoughts and emotions in detail. The style is either soft and gentle, or hard and heavy, like the wind. Her artworks have primarily been printed on paper and circulated as prints and zines, and she has begun creating personal works.
About DEVEDO
顯影堂 DEVEDO is one of Hong Kong’s rare photography bookstores, founded in July 2025 by LAU Tung-Pui, 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.
繼去年十月參展倫敦Affordable Art Fair後，Laurence將於今年一月底參加街頭攝影平台TOKYO STREETS在東京日比谷OKUROJI商店街空間舉辦的大型攝影聯展，該展覽展出逾30位來自世界各地攝影師的街頭攝影和紀實攝影作品，包括Deep Chan和Wilson Poon等三位來自香港的攝影師，而Laurence以一系列「消失的霓虹」(Disappearing Neon Signs) 的作品參展，在異國他鄉訴說屬於香港的情懷與記憶。
TOKYO STREETS 10 日期：1月27日至2月1日 時間： 11:00 – 20:00 地址：東京千代田區日比谷Okuroji
Renowned Hong Kong photographer Laurence Lai is set to feature his works at the TOKYO STREETS exhibition, taking place in Hibiya Okuroji in Tokyo at the end of January.
Laurence’s evocative photographs will center on the iconic neon signs that once illuminated Hong Kong’s cityscape, capturing a visual language synonymous with the city’s vibrant urban culture. Through his lens, Laurence not only showcases these dazzling relics of the past but also invites viewers to reflect on the rapid transformation of Hong Kong’s streetscapes.
Sadly, the majority of the neon signs immortalized in his striking images have now vanished, their absence adds a poignant sense of nostalgia to the exhibition, offering Tokyo audiences a rare glimpse into a bygone era of Hong Kong’s history.
DEVEDO’s First Photography Exhibition—間まMA：Ryuichi by Rensis
Japanese renowned musician Ryuichi Sakamoto visited Hong Kong in 1998, and photographer Rensis Ho captured his unique portraits.
As for Rensis, Sakamoto is a brilliant and charismatic artist. During the shooting process, Sakamoto quickly entered his own realm, sometimes looking directly into the camera, sometimes lying on the ground. His “performance” felt impromptu, effortlessly charming, and Rensis skillfully captured his spiritual gesture.
Twenty-seven years later, these precious images will be fully exhibited at DEVEDO for the first time. The exhibition, themed “間まMA,” aims to reflect the professor’s unique charisma and the profound meaning conveyed by his photographs.
In Japanese, “間まMA” is composed of the characters for “door” and “sun,” symbolizing sunlight filtering through a door into a room. Much like Sakamoto’s music, it brings warmth and inner peace amidst the world’s hustle and bustle.
“間まMA” also represents negative space or emptiness. In traditional Japanese art, this concept profoundly influences composition and aesthetics. In modern interpretation, it is an artistic expression of blank space, inviting viewers to focus on the negative space and find beauty in simplicity.
Rensis’s works from the 1990s feature minimalist backgrounds that highlight the professor’s demeanor and expression. The photographs, printed on Japanese awagami washi paper, resonate with Ryuichi Sakamoto’s calm and Zen spirit.
《間まMA：Ryuichi by Rensis》 Date: 2025.10.23 – 11.29 Time: 2-7pm (Wednesday-Saturday, By Appointment) Venue: @devedo.hk , 6J, Block 2 Kingley Industrial Building, 33 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang. Image Printing Supported by @avocadoartlab
