Vendors

• Asia One Product and Publishing Company

  Established in 2007, AsiaOne strives to publish works that are representative of Hong Kong’s evolving art scene. Its library documents stories of Hong Kong and celebrates local artists, photographers, illustrators, designers and architects. With a dedication to the craft of design, colour management and printing, AsiaOne sees the act of publishing as art in itself.
  

  

• Be Here

  From here to there, Be Here heightens the mundane details of our everyday life through sounds, images, and words. Their platform seeks to encourage people to embrace the beauty of the ordinary, and to be ‘in the moment’, here, together.

  

• Fuji Photo Products Co., Ltd.

  Since its establishment in Hong Kong in 1968, Fuji Photo Products has been committed to creating professional products for a wide range of users, from professionals to amateurs. Fujifilm's technology offers a diverse range of equipment – from digital cameras to Instax products – something for everyone to discover and express their own photographic style.

• Gueari Galeri (Indonesia)

  A photobook gallery and independent publisher based in Jakarta and Bekasi, Indonesia. Their tagline ‘a personal story for you’ points to their use of photography and photobooks to present personal stories as a means for self-exploration, empowerment, and agents of change. Since 2015, Gueari Galeri have been conducting Photo Book Class, kelas buku foto gueari galeri, to facilitate the development of personal stories in photobooks. They also hold photobook discussions, ngobrol buku foto, in various regions across Indonesia as a form of education to improve photobook literacy.

  

• GWO BEAN

  Semi-public studio run by a community of beans. The name GWO BEAN, literally ‘next to fruit’, refers to our location beside the Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market. It also means ‘over there’ in Cantonese. We chose this name to represent the space and direction of our studio. Come say hi @gwobean

  

• Jordan Leung

  Jordan LEUNG is a stand-up comedian and content creator. If you are reading this, you probably have no idea who he is, but he was once described as “so silly and hyper-intelligent at the same time” by a very impressionable Hong Kong University student. Since coming back to Hong Kong in 2020, Jordan’s wit and absurd ideas (disguised as endearing stupidity) has earned him a dedicated following in Hong Kong.

  

• Lau Chi Chung

  LAU worked in the television commercial industry as an art director before becoming a full-time artist. He started out making short films, and these days mostly works in photography. His photographic series ‘Landscaped Artifacts' (2013) earned him the New Photography Artist of the Year award at the Lianzhou Foto Festival 2013. Lau received third prize of Hong Kong’s first Photobook Dummy Award at the 2021 Hong Kong Photobook Festival for his latest work ‘The Dayspring of Eternity’.

  

• Lighting Supports Photo Co.

  An Equipment Dealer with familiar brands, including Elinchrom, Broncolor, and Kupo Lighting.

• Lonely Kidney and Draw your Pet

  Lonely Kidney is an Illustrator, redefining and ridiculing Hong Kong society through her unique perspective and practice. Draw your Pet, aka LEUNG Chiu Yi, creates comics and oil paintings. She believes her creations are proof of her existence in this world; she sees mark-making as a process of transferring emotions, with each stroke carrying a certain weight.

  

• Matca (Vietnam)

  Matca is an independent, non-profit initiative dedicated to dialogue on photography in Vietnam. Founded in 2016, Matca has evolved across platforms, including but not limited to an online journal, a physical space, and an imprint called Makét.

  

• narrativesbyus

  narrativesbyus was formed by a group of ethnic minorities (EM) raised in Hong Kong’s local education system. The collective aims to complicate the simplistic identity of “ethnic minority” and all the connotations in the public imagination. The team— Suskihanna GURUNG, Shama MASHROOR, Ian Paolo VILLAREAL, and Merina SUNUWAR— hopes to foster a creative and continuously evolving space for local EMs in Hong Kong through a yearly zine publication that archives community events.

  

• PAPER MATTER (Taiwan)

  PAPER MATTER is dedicated to promoting the aesthetics, practices, and knowledge of artists’ books and contemporary photobooks. With the Artists' Books Archive of the Taipei Artists Village as basecamp, the organisation works on collection, research, education, curation, and consultation— all in an effort of rediscovering the agency of books/publications as a contemporary art practice, exploring its future possibilities in East Asia, and developing global discourse.

  

• Phoboko

  Phoboko is a platform for bringing people together through photobooks. At monthly meetings, the group uses photobooks as a tool to talk about issues related to photography, questioning and critiquing new photographic work, and openly sharing ideas. Their emerging community interrogates photography as a medium, with a focus on collaborative methods. Additionally, Phoboko promotes exchange between local Hong Kong practitioners and photographers across the Asia-Pacific.

  

• Photobook Small Sell

  This online book shop formed by local image maker Hang TAM and Standsfield TO sells handmade, new, and second-hand photography books.

  

• Po JOURN

  To record, to discuss, then participate: Po JOURN is an experimental collaborative project rooted in Tai Po, with a strong desire to record observations in the district. Po JOURN encourages readers— not only Tai Po residents but all Hong-Kongers— to explore and participate more in their community through discussions on various topics. Aiming to broaden the imagination of what district journals can be, the team places a huge emphasis on aesthetics and creativity. They often collaborate with illustrators, photographers, poets, writers, architects and artists across many fields.

  

• RamboCat

  A fan of photography for decades with entry-level vintage lenses and camera bodies to sell and tips to share.

  

• Tom Wai Chung

  The inception of their DIY and modified cameras has been about repurposing old objects, so that dusty lenses can find a place in the digital age. Some modifications are also made to enhance the coverage for existing lenses. In sticking with analogue photographic tools, they are also extending the lifespan of resources.

  

• Thames & Hudson Asia

  Founded in 1949, Thames & Hudson is a publisher of illustrated books with over 2,000 titles in print. Their books span across ‎art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, music, archaeology, history and popular culture, including children’s books. Headquartered in London, they have a sister company in New York and subsidiaries in Melbourne, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

• Thing Books (Singapore)

  Thing Books (est. 2021) is an online bookshop specialising in artists’ books, zines, and self-published/ independently-produced printed matter. Dedicated to the promotion and understanding of the book as an artistic medium, Thing Books organises the annual Singapore Art Book Fair, and houses a catalogue of published print materials under the SG Art Book Library.

  

• the memory machine

  the memory machine started as a personal exploration between images, low-tech printing, and book-making by Alex LAU. In love with tangible photographs, Alex spent time experimenting with different image-making methods, such as making instant film pinhole cameras, cyanotypes, and recreating images with film on photocopiers, to name but a few.
  From 2018, Alex began printing photographs and making publications with a risograph duplicator. Over the years, he has participated in local and international art book fairs, including in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, and Tokyo.
  In 2021, he started his own creative risograph studio to collaborate with artists and photographers, co-creating photo-books and editioned prints.

  

• YeP YeP

  Created by photographer and creative director, Kenny X. LI, YeP YeP is an experimental fashion and art magazine featuring works by emerging Hong Kong creatives from the fields of art, fashion, graphic design, and more.

  

• ZINE COOP

  ZINE COOP is a collective of zine-makers with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds. The collective promotes zine-making culture, actively reaching out to readers from different cultures by showcasing zines both online and at local and international art book fairs.