Hong Kong Top Sights: Animal Walk Chapter Three
Ki Wong
Twenty-Nine Something Publishing House
Chinese Traditional
Text by Zhihua Chen
Softcover
40 Pages
150 x 100 mm
2008
“Hong Kong Top Sights — Animal Walk”
This photobook is set in Deer Island Village, a place where “nothing ever happened.” Everything seems calm and natural, yet beneath the surface hides an unnamed connection. Two people meet again at a wedding abroad. Both are careful with their emotions, yet both end up wasting them on each other — no eye contact, no real talk, no confirmation. Only blank spaces where the camera turns away, and delayed replies in a Facebook chat. He is like a lone deer, handsome, alert, unwilling to be approached. She is a visitor, carrying dreams and a camera, trying to get closer but stepping back when she sees the shadow of a bear. They look for the bear together, but only see each other’s backs. They walk into an oasis, sharing no language but only silence. It is not love, nor loss, but two people who don’t fit the world, practicing loneliness through each other. She learns to talk to herself; he learns what it means to be seen. In the end, she walks toward herself, and he stays outside the frame. Deer Island Village has no story — only wind, sunlight, grass, and an unnamed regret, like a photo without his face, still holding proof that he once existed.
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About the Author
Ki Wong (Ki) has worked as a lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Director of the photography education program “TOE”, and founder of ”Kah“, a photography and culture magazine. She uses painting, writing, and photography to explore memories of people, nature, and place, as well as family history and roots. Her works include A Place to Live, Inheritance, Our Family Album, and Birth.
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About the Publisher
Twenty-Nine Something Publishing House was founded in 2003. A group of people around the age of twenty nine came together to try out things they liked in publishing. These people became “29s.” They do not separate text and image, using publishing as a way to reflect on creation. Their books include poetry, novels, art collections, and comics. “29s” has also worked with different partners, such as MUJI, Business of Design Week, East Touch, Amazingangle, Sing Pao Daily News, and Amai Bookstore, to create projects, exhibitions, and talks.
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