14.06.2025

Description

In this companion activity, Paul Yeung invites participants to join a guided photo walk through everyday urban settings, encouraging participants to re-examine their surroundings with renewed attentiveness. During Martin Parr's 2013 visit to Hong Kong—a cultural exchange that culminated in the creation of the photobook Hong Kong Parr—Paul worked as Parr’s assistant.

Drawing on this firsthand experience, Paul will share his unique insight into Parr’s methods and artistic ethos. Participants are encouraged to explore themes such as tourism, commercial culture, and public behaviour, reflecting on how the mundane can be rendered visually compelling through the lens of irony and critical observation.

**The tour will be conducted in Cantonese.

Paul Yeung

Paul Yeung Tak-ming is a freelance photographer, an educator and a curator. He graduated from MA in Image and Communication (Photography) at Goldsmiths College, London. Yeung embarked on his profession as a photojournalist and photo editor and received numerous photography awards in the past 20 years. His contemporary works mostly concern social situation expressed in a humorous sense and are interested in the genres, narrative and appropriation of photographic language. Yeung opened his first solo photography exhibition “The Flower Show” in 2012. He published his first photobook “Yes Madam, Sorry Ah Sir” in 2017. Yeung was also one of the founding members of several local independent photozines, including “Mahjong”, “Not Accord With…” and “Fu Pao Mary”. His other favorite works include “The Advertising Billboard is Nothing”, “The Good Old Days in 1989”, “No Paint No Games”, “Dark Light” etc., His works and photobooks were exhibited internationally and were collected by The Hong Kong Heritage Museum and private collectors.

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