May 25, 2017 2.8

May 25, 2017

Holun Tang

2.8

山縱不高,在風雨交加的海拔六百米以上高地,冬天的寒風仍然教人感到刺骨。
遇見零丁幾個毫無準備的遠足者,鮮艷的風衣沒有帽子也不防水,水點在頭髮上滴答滴答地流著,向我問路。
「這種環境,我也不太清楚呢。」我這樣如實回答。
我想,如果只一味抱著嬉戲的心態遊山玩水,最終只是自討苦吃。
先自知後量力而為,也是對大自然的基本尊重。

The mountain is not tall, but the cold winter wind and rain chill me to the bone at 600m above sea level.
I run into a couple of unprepared hikers who are wearing colourful but hoodless windbreakers. They are asking for direction while water is dripping off their hair.
“Under the circumstances, I cannot be sure.” I reply with sincerity.
I believe touring merely for fun will only bring a regretful end.
Consider one’s ability before acting is a basic respect to the Mother Nature.


他有種說故事的本領,用影像帶你跟隨他的步調,以緩慢的節奏觀看生活中的不經意。鄧浩倫,香港攝影師,先後發表過攝影集《Maybe a sentence or something》(2013)、《Stairs》(2014)、《聽靜》(2016)。喜在不尋常的視角看待尋常景物,相比起充滿城市緊張感、呈現香港繁喧印象的攝影,他的作品是個異數。題材單一平淡,風格安靜內斂,但他認為「真正單調的,是我們看待生命的態度」。

He is a talented narrator; in an unhurried pace, you are led by visual images to watch the trivial matters of life.  Published photobooks by the Hong Kong photography Ho Lun Tang include Maybe a sentence or something in 2013, Stairs in 2014 and Listen quietly in 2016. While most of the photography works tend to depict Hong Kong as a bustling and tense city, Tang is definitely a peculiar photographer who gazes at the usual objects from an unusual angle. He uses a modest attitude to document monotonous subjects in his photography, for he believes ‘what is truly monotonous is our approach to life.’

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