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Peter Yung Retrospective: 55 years of Photography


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Yung has traveled round the world for over 50 years, living like a monk on pilgrimage. Capturing each natural scene with his camera, he puts forth one after another cautionary wordage with his images. The street life he captured is like a drama stage where each character lights up the spark in his life at the instant the film exposes. The exile and relocation he has gone through physically are transformed into psychological and fated experience.

Each opening and closing of lens, contact and touch are reflections of the photographer's abundant life experiences. As time goes by, the heart will gradually be nurtured. While life in Hong Kong today offers no clue, we should keep our eyes open and take a look at the visual footprints left behind by the predecessors. Look far and ahead is the practical stance. Let us await a better tomorrow.

The exhibition "Heaven, Earth and Human" will show the photographer as a humanitarian that cares about the world, and how he exemplifies the different trends of contemporary photography in his unique way of expression. The exhibition is organized by Lumenvisum.It will display about 300 works by Yung in the past half century (since 1966), to be divided into three sections and 12 groups.


Venue address: Low Block Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City Hall