Book signing 'The Labyrinth' with Christopher Button @ Photo London
Date and time: 13 May 2023 at 1pm (UK Time - GMT+1)
at Photo London - Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
Booth F11
‘The Labyrinth’ by Christopher Button takes you on a late night journey through the meandering underground stations of Hong Kong. Button depicts some of the city’s most crowded locations as a quiet, dystopian world.
Deeply inspired by cinema, he shot this series in medium format with his Mamiya 7 camera and Cine-Still film. The result, is a cinematic universe that echoes Hiroshi Sugimoto’s way of freezing time and an eerie maze reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's horror. He creates a liminal space that offers solace and discomfort at the same time. It is relatable perhaps to those who felt trapped during times of uncertainty and tremendous changes.
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！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。
深受電影啟發的 Button，仍熱衷於節奏較慢的菲林攝影，整輯系列都使用中畫幅 Mamiya 7 相機和 Cine-Still 底片拍攝，有助讓他鏡頭下的地鐵車站更具影像感，從而創造出自己的小宇宙。其作品呼應 Hiroshi Sugimoto 凍結時間的手法，亦帶有 Stanley Kubrick 的影像風格，令人不安的同時也覓得慰藉。
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。
