Book Launch & Signing: 'The Labyrinth' by Christopher Button
Date: 26 April 2023
Time: 5:00 - 8:00 pm
at blue lotus gallery, 28 Pound Lane, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
+++ Free Event
‘The Labyrinth’, exhibited in the summer of 2021 at Blue Lotus Gallery, is finally released as a publication with all the supports by pre-ordering on Kickstarter!
This series by rising photographer Christopher Button captures his many late nights spent in the underground stations of Hong Kong, transforming some of the city’s most crowded locations into a quiet, dystopian world. His medium format analogue shots presents Hong Kong’s underground with great suspense reminiscent of Kubrick’s cinema.
Come meet the photographer and get your copy of ‘The Labyrinth’ signed!
於 2021 年夏季在 Blue Lotus Gallery 展出的 《迷宮》系列，成功於 Kickstarter 集資出版成攝影集！感謝各界的所有支持！
新晉攝影師 Christopher Button 拍攝的這個系列，捕捉了他在香港地鐵站度過的多個深夜，將這座城市最擁擠的空間轉化成了一個安靜的反烏托邦世界。他的中畫幅相機鏡頭展現出香港茫茫無際的地下空間，讓人聯想到 Stanley Kubrick 的電影。
歡迎大家於 4 月26日 星期三 下午5至8時蒞臨 Blue Lotus Gallery 參加 《迷宮》攝影集的發布會及簽書活動！
You can Pre-order 'The Labyrinth' here now and pick up or get shipped out early May
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Visit us on 26 April 2023 (5pm-8pm) for Book Launch & Signing: 'The Labyrinth' by Christopher Button to meet the photographer and get your copy of ‘The Labyrinth’ signed!
Published by Blue Lotus Editions Hong Kong, April 2023
First Edition of 1000 copies
210 x 260 mmm, 56 pages, 0.6 kg, hardcover
English
ISBN: 978-988-76192-4-6
Christopher Button is an artist and photographer, who has recently moved back to his native United Kingdom after 10 years living and working in Hong Kong. His inspirations are drawn from the city and cinema, particularly the films of Lynch, Kubrick and Tarkovsky. His quiet yet cinematic images look to explore the inner life of his subjects. Gently unraveling the confines which surround us all, exposing venerability in darkness and beauty.
His first solo exhibition Some Dream (2016, Ethos Gallery, HK) combined photographs of people in moments of contemplation and introspection with details and accents of the city in which they live. This combination of inward thought and outward, abstract reflection has a haunting, dream like quality. Using predominantly analogue cameras and 35mm film, Christopher’s images glisten with colour and light.
Christopher was also part of a group show at ‘HK:ID’ (Light Stage Gallery, HK) during Art Basel week. His work was shown alongside iconic Hong Kong street photographer Fan Ho and a number of international Artists. In 2017, he was commissioned by the British Council to take 5 photos to be presented for the Queens Birthday Celebrations at the Asia Society. Christoper Button is now exclusively represented by Blue Lotus Gallery.
Christopher Button 是一位曾居港生活多年的藝術家和攝影師，其靈感來自繁華鬧市以及 David Lynch、Stanley Kubrick 和 Andrei Tarkovsky 的電影世界，作品探索萬物的內心生活，並帶有濃厚的電影感，嘗試用温柔剝開世界給我們的限制和枷鎖，讓我們在漆黑中瞧見美態。
他首個個展 《Some Dream》(2016, Ethos Gallery, 香港) 中的作品，將人們沉思的畫面與城市中的細節集結，探索內在思想和外在反省的相互結合，營造令人不寒而慄又如夢的氛圍。他熱衷於菲林攝影，作品呈現豐富的色彩和光線運用。
他曾參與 Light Stage Gallery 於巴塞爾藝術展的展覧《HK:ID》，其作品與香港街頭攝影大師何藩和多位國際攝影師一同列出。2017年，他受英國文化協會委託，拍下5幅作品，並於亞洲協會舉行的英女王生日慶典中展出。此外，他曾將130幅作品出售予灣仔芬名酒店，作客房展示品。
