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| Vase, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026 |
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| Tumbler, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026 |
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| Rabbit, Digital photo, 450 x 620 mm, 2026 |
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| Book, Digital photo, 450 x 620 mm, 2026 |
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| Bottle, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026 |
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| Towel, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026 |
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| Teapot, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026 |
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| Tea cup, Digital photo, 450 x 620 mm, 2026 |
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| Paper towel, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026 |
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| Jam, Digital photo, 450 x 620 mm, 2026 |
Not quite still life is a series of work by Ho Chun Yu that aims to explore the scope of camera-less photography and revisit still life photography as a genre with a new perspective.
The images in this series are the outcome of a non-camarea image making process. A selection of daily life objects, applying studio lighting techniques and instead of a camera, a scanner is in use. Resulting from moving objects over a moving scanner sensor, these images parodically review the idea of 'still' life photography with a not-quite-still act of image capturing.
Chun Yu uses such an approach to render multiple viewpoints in one go, deliberately against the conventional idea that photography as a medium only offers a sole viewpoint in any single shot. The objects in these images are being recomposited to suggest an alternative representation of ‘reality’ without the aid of digital manipulation but real acts in the process of making.
With Not quiet still life, Chun Yu attempted to move towards a step further to untapped the potential realm of photograph making.
