何鎮宇 Ho Chun Yu Jerry: 1.1 Photography

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06/02/2026

Not Quite Still Life

Vase, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026

Tumbler, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026

Rabbit, Digital photo, 450 x 620 mm, 2026

Book, Digital photo, 450 x 620 mm, 2026

Bottle, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026

Towel, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026

Teapot, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026

Tea cup, Digital photo, 450 x 620 mm, 2026

Paper towel, Digital photo, 620 x 450 mm, 2026

Jam, Digital photo, 450 x 620 mm, 2026

This is a project to explore the idea of ‘Still-life’ photography. The term ‘still’ refers to something that is unmoving; ‘life’ suggests a state that is living and in motion. While still life photography assumes the capture of motionless objects, what if the still life is not ‘still’ at all when the image is taken?

Not Quite Still Life is a series of photograph by Ho Chun Yu that aims to investigate the scope of camera-less photography and revisit still life photography as a genre with a new perspective.

30/11/2025

Self portrait

Self portrait #1, Digital photo, 600 x 825 mm, 2025

Self portrait #2, Digital photo, 600 x 825 mm, 2025

This self-portrait explores the idea of reconstructing one’s self-identity in another language and cultural environment. Instead of a camera, a scanner is used to capture the facial features. Presenting multiple viewpoints simultaneously in a sole portrait is an attempt to frame a moment in motion. Stretching, ongoing and yet-to-be ascertaining, this self portrait is a record of searching and redefining oneself.

17/06/2025

From Cloud To Ground

Instant film, 85 x 54 mm, 2025

In this project, digital photography is not considered as a replacement, an advancement or a rival but as an entirely different apparatus and approach to producing photographic imagery compared to and associated with analogue photography.

Instant film photography once was used to represent authenticity and existence, but it is not any more in the digital generation with all the advancement in technology. In this series of instant film work, the original image is a screenshot instead of a photographical capture of any real object. By creating a series of maze-like digital photographic images on instant films without the use of a digital camera, this project investigates an alternative way of image capturing that interplays between analogue photography and digital photography.

The ramification of this experiment, applying digital photography methods combined with classical photography material, constructed an illusion of a three dimensional space, a multiple layers of empty frame on instant films, that challenges the perception of the viewers, questions the traditional understanding of photographic image making and experiments with a not-yet-be-seen aspect of photography as a form of artistic practice itself.

26/05/2023

《花果飄零》Drifting Petals

Digital photo, 2022

13/12/2020

《帝力於我何有哉》 Who The Fxxk Cares

Cyanotype and metallic ink on paper, 530 x 380 mm, 2020

作品題目取自中國古代詩歌《擊壤歌》最後一句。華夏文化的政治理想，曾經在香港曇花一現，而當時的人卻稱之為政治冷感。作品所用符號來自‪香港的街道‬風景及清朝康熙年間一部著名畫譜《芥子園畫傳》。

The original Chinese work title comes from the last sentence of an ancient Chinese poem 擊壤歌 (Song of Peasants in the Time of Yaou). The political ideal of Chinese culture, was once realizing in Hong Kong, but people called it Political Apathy back then. The symbols used in the artwork are from streetscape of Hong Kong and Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden, a printed manual of Chinese painting compiled during the early-Qing Dynasty.