Many Homes, One Festival

For more than a decade, the Hong Kong International Photo Festival has periodically returned to the elusive themes of ‘home’ and ‘family’. In 2013, we hosted 300 Families, an exhibition of 12 photographers and 300 photographic submissions from the public. 1000 Families followed in 2016, showcasing 1000 public submissions and the works of 13 artists on the themes of ‘happiness’, ‘love’, and ‘memory’. In 2024, we resume the homeward journey.

During the recent years of pandemic and uncertainty, we’ve adopted a variety of festival formats to continue the work of sharing unique and impactful photography with the public. With the opening of the Festival’s new ‘home’ at Koon Man Space in Chuen Lung, we are even more confident in delivering diverse visions of photography in our exhibitions. From 300 families to 1000, we’ve levelled up to the innumerable ‘MEGA’, represented by the dispersed abstraction of the Chinese character 萬 (maan6), or ‘ten thousand’.

Flagship Exhibition

Mega Family: Imagining Home

‘Mega Family: Imagining Home’ spotlights newly commissioned works by fifteen Hong Kong photographers. Each artist explores the evolving physical, cultural, and even mental landscapes of ‘home’ and ‘family’ in post-pandemic Hong Kong. The photographers’ subjective takes encompass a range of approaches, from landscape and conceptual photography to manipulated images, mixed media, and AI experiments—exemplifying the rhizomatic potentiality of photography in narrating, responding to, and imagining reality. 

Curators: Blues Wong & Carol Chow

Artists: anothermountainman, Michelle Chan, Chan Oi Yan, Almond Chu, Joseph Fung, Justin Hui, Lau Chi Chung, Jimmy Lee, Thomas Lin, Kevin Ling, So Hing Keung, Wong Chi Lam, Paul Yeung, Yu Ho Yeung, Vincent Yu

Dates: 2024.11.08–12.08 (11:00-20:00 daily)

Venue: Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre

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