2024

Mega Family—Imagining Home

The flagship exhibition of the 2024 Festival is ‘Mega Family— Imagining Home’, an extension of our past exhibitions ‘300 Families’ (2013) and ‘1000 Families’ (2016). Curated by Blues Wong and Carol Chow, the exhibition features new works by fifteen local artists, spanning film photographs, projections, manipulated images, mixed media, and AI experiments. Click here for a recap of our opening.

Koon Man Space Opens

Koon Man Space is finally open to the public after the opening ceremony that took place yesterday on the 9 May. With the support of the Government, local stakeholders and community members, we successfully obtained a short-term lease of the site of the former Koon Man School at Chuen Lung Village, Tai Mo Shan, and a subsidy for refurbishing the 60-year-old site. We aspire to build a space for learning, exchanges, and experimentations on contemporary photography, not least a communal space to strengthen relationships, generate conversations and vitality from within the scenic village.

2023

Satellite Exhibitions 2023

After three long years of pandemic disruptions, physical events and public activities have gradually returned to normal in the local cultural and arts scene. Satellite Exhibitions, presented by the Hong Kong International Photo Festival, is returning with its first edition of international exchange programme by spotlighting 6 overseas and 7 local image makers throughout the Festival period.

2022

Off-sets: Photographies of Hong Kong Cinema

The 2022 Festival was completed with 3 major programmes – Off-sets: Photographies of Hong Kong Cinema, Satellite Exhibitions 2022, and Weekend Market. Please click to access our Annual Report 2022 .

2021

Photography Cinema

Through the main programme Photography Cinema, HKIPF 2021 saw a wide variety of works and artistic approaches from image makers in Hong Kong and neighbouring countries. Beyond screenings and discussions exploring the ‘still’ and ‘moving’ from a multitude of perspectives, talks, workshops, performance and photo walks held in different pockets of the city brought new ways to experience familiar neighbourhoods and get to know different communities.

Satellite Exhibitions 2021

Alongside an international main programme, homegrown ‘Satellite Exhibitions’ showcased 16 emerging local image makers and collectives across art spaces and everyday venues in 9 districts and online. In addition, 4 local galleries and art spaces also joined as Collaborators to present exhibitions at their venues to create synergy. Together, they covered topics including culture of technology, impacts of the pandemic, reflections on the body and inner emotions, and memories of the city and nature.

2020

SEEN & UNSEEN

SEEN & UNSEEN – the theme of the 2020 Festival. In this digital age, we have become so accustomed to constant imagery, but do we really see? Are we able to see images as reflections of the political thoughts and aesthetic judgements of their creators? Are we able to tell what is interpreted as “truth” and what is shaped into one? Of all the things we see, which do we notice, and which elude our attention and go unseen? Nurturing a broader and more holistic perspective, critical and free of presuppositions, requires a long process that demands continuous reflection and reference points, sometimes from our predecessors.

2018

PROVOKE & BEYOND

First published in 1968, the legendary photography magazine PROVOKE of post-World War II Japan shook the art world and subverted traditional aesthetics of photography with its “are, bure, boke” (“grainy, blurry, out of focus”) B/W images. The magazine encapsulated the social atmosphere of the late 1960s, challenged existing photographic forms and frameworks, and continues to have a profound influence on Japanese photographers today.

2016

1000 Families

Every one can have their own definition of ‘family’: where one finds happiness, where one can give love and be loved, or where your heart lies. The exhibition “1000 Families” showcases works by 13 photographers local and overseas. Their works are examined under three main themes: Love, Happiness, and Memories, each representing a facet of the multi-layer meaning of ‘family’.

What Do You Want For Tomorrow?

“What Do You Want For Tomorrow?”, a partnership project of Hong Kong Heritage Museum and the Hong Kong Photographic Culture Association, is one of the highlights of the Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2016. This exhibition connects artists from media that are different from, yet related to, photography to explore different possibilities of its contemporary forms, and to examine the creative characteristics and artistic pursuits of women in the present age.

2014

In Light of India: Photography by Raghu Rai

The Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2014 kick-started with the flagship programme “In Light of India: Photography by Raghu Rai”.

Voice of Tacitness: Asian Women Photography

The exhibition examines from a humanitarian perspective the oppression faced by women in Asian developing countries, including discrimination and violence. It features documentary and conceptual works by 13 women photographers. Artist statements and biographies are included in the catalogue.

TRADITION/anti-TRADITION: Departed from Hong Kong ‘Photo Pictorial’ Magazine…

Through the retrospect of Hong Kong “Photo Pictorial” which was first published fifty years ago, this exhibition endeavors to examine the transformation of photography in Hong Kong and Mainland China in the last half a century. By observing and comparing the work of photographers from the two regions, we can find similarities and differences on the ideas and topics of the images as well as the mutual influence between two places.

Twin Peaks: Contemporary Hong Kong Photography

Two groups of work from each of the eight participating creative units are showcased in the exhibition. The two pieces are dissimilar in theme, nature or form so that the audience can discover different angles to appreciate and experience the works of Hong Kong contemporary photographers.

2013

300 Families

In ‘300 Families’ twelve groups of artists are invited to interpret the notion of ‘family’ and even attribute new meanings to it. Through the images of 300 local families, the artists provide their photographic insights into what constitute a ‘family’ and the ideas about living in this globalised city space.

2012

Reflection And Refraction

Acclaimed Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, featuring his “Sunflower” and “Auto-portraits” series. A valuable opportunity for photography lovers to see the works of a master who has literally spent his life in relentless pursuit of capturing the cultural contradictions in Japan, the fragmentary realities of urban life, and the unguarded moments of inner self.

Live．Like．Love

Live．Like．Love engaged the community in an array of exciting events throughout the territory to foster the art and culture of photography in Hong Kong, and thereby promoting Hong Kong as a creative hub in Asia.

2010

Four Dimensions: Contemporary Photography from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan & Macau

Amid the grand opening of the Hong Kong Photography Festival 2010, exhibition on ‘First Photos of Hong Kong’, sponsored by the Canon Group, uncovers the beginning of photography in Hong Kong, followed by the prominent exhibition “Four Dimensions-Contemporary Photography from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan & Macau” introducing the recent development. In line with the merging of the contemporary art among different media, the transforming art forms of photography are fascinating which can be incorporated in films and dance performances.