Photography

"Photography can provide us with more than just the confirmation of what we already knew. Of course, the temptation is great just to opt for a stable view of the world. That provides a clear sense of order and everything looks so beautiful. A false reality, blocking out the intentions and emotions of the photographer, who wants to provide us with a possible key to help us orient ourselves in this labyrinth of the world.

The unique possibilities presented by the medium of photography are comprised precisely of this dialogue with the outside world and the ability to continually question the perception of it according to one's own criteria, in order to expose it, transform it into a visual experiment. The key to the quest for order in photography, involving the interplay of bodies, objects, signs and spaces transforming them to a legible structure, to a comprehensible composition, is not to lose sight of chaos. It is precisely this chaos that gives photography its unlimited liveliness.

Normally, we would hardly take notice of many of these objects, which appear insignificant and banal to us. Torn away from their purely functional context, in fragmented form, visually compact, they take on such a highly sensual aura, that they develop deep associations for the observer. We don't look at things. Things look at us."

quoted from Wolfgang Zurborn
p. 62 from Views of Brand Culture - Leica


You will surely agree with me that this is a barren tree in winter

but you may not know that it was taken outside the Central Library in the busy Causeway Bay

You will also agree with me that this is a tree, but the lighting is somehow different from what I use to perceive, something is different

but you may not appreciate it as an alternative way of reading a tree

you might say this is a bunch of green colours, with some occasional details of trees

but you may not find its bouncy green colour attractive

you might vaguely notice the ambiguous shapes of leaves

but you might question whether they are really leaves, or is it something wrong with the camera's focus

When I am vigorously trying to ask you to imagine and show you the possibilities of the movement of trees that you might not have thought of

you might complain that this is merely a patch of pastel with no subject matter at all