Hide & Seek, China’s City Cats, Hong Kong
躲猫猫香港
Photographs by Marcel Heijnen
攝影師：馬奕修
Published by ZIWU Culture, Modern Media
出版社：现代传播有限公司出版．誌屋文化
120 pages, 300+ color plates, 30 x 22.5 cm, Hard cover
120頁, 18 × 13.5 厘米, 精装
Simplified Chinese only
簡體中文
ISBN: 978-988-17972-0-9
At the end of 2015, Marcel Heijnen moved back to Hong Kong and began photographing cats. These cats inhabit corners of the city — in shops, temples, ancestral halls, construction sites, and along the streets — like kings and queens of their own domains. Because cats are elusive and unpredictable, he often had to return to the same location multiple times. It is precisely this uncertainty that made the process feel like a game of “hide-and-seek.” In this book, you will encounter the everyday life of Hong Kong’s shops — from stores filled with the rich scents of dried seafood and traditional Chinese medicine to the stone lions standing guard in the streets. In a single gentle gesture of touch, you will also glimpse the sincere bond between people and cats.
The book is divided into three chapters: “Together,” which presents the interactions between humans and cats; “Being,” which focuses on the cats themselves; and “Being Together,” which places the cats back into their surrounding environments. Poet Tam Jiong-Ching has written verses to accompany these vivid photographs, using concise language to connect with the deeper emotions behind the images. The cats are merely the starting point; what they ultimately evoke are memories of urban transformation, moments of slow living within a fast-paced world, forms of human warmth not yet shaped by technology, and the “neighborhood of home” that many of us have long forgotten.
‘Cats are, of course, the protagonists of these images. Yet at times, these furry little creatures also serve as “icebreakers” that anchor a scene — giving me a reason to smile at shop owners and exchange a few words before pressing the shutter. In China, such an opening often leads to a warm invitation: “Come, sit down and have a cup of tea.” In this way, those fleeting moments continue to live vividly beyond the frame.’ — Marcel Heijnen
About the Photographer
Dutch photographer Marcel Heijnen lived in Singapore and Hong Kong for over three decades and now divides his time between Amsterdam and Hong Kong. He has consistently developed a diverse body of photographic work, ranging from feline subjects to art-related themes and everything in between, set against the backdrop of urbanization and transience, capturing different facets of street life in major cities.
2015 年底，馬奕修搬回香港，開始了貓咪的拍攝計畫。這些貓棲身於商店、寺廟、宗祠、工地與街頭等城市空間的一隅，宛如各自領地中的國王與皇后。由於貓咪行蹤難測，他不得不反覆回訪同一地點；也正因這份不確定，讓他覺得自己正進行著一場「躲貓貓」的遊戲。你將在本書中看見香港店舖裡的人情日常，例如瀰漫著濃厚海味與中藥香氣的店鋪，以及街頭巷尾象徵庇佑的石獅子；也會在一個輕撫的瞬間裡，看見人與貓之間流露的真摯情感。
本書分為三個章節：「在一起」呈現人與貓之間的互動關係；「在」聚焦於貓自身的形態；「一起在」則將貓放回其所處的空間。詩人談炯程為這組生動的照片寫下詩行，在簡潔的文字中勾連圖像背後更深層的情緒。貓咪只是拍攝的引子，它所牽引出的，是城市現代化進程中的時代記憶，是快節奏中的慢生活，是尚未被科技物化的人情冷暖，以及被我們大部分人遺忘的「家的附近」。
「貓咪自然是這些影像的主角。但有時，這些毛茸茸的小生靈也像是凝住風景的『破冰者』——讓我有理由向店主微笑致意，在按下快門前寒暄幾句。在中國，這樣的開場白往往會換來熱情的邀請：『來，坐下喝杯茶吧。』讓那些瞬間在底片之外繼續鮮活地延伸。」—— 馬奕修
攝影師簡介
荷蘭攝影師馬奕修（Marcel Heijnen）曾在新加坡與香港居住三十餘年，如今往返於阿姆斯特丹與香港兩地生活與創作。他長期致力於發展一系列攝影作品，題材橫跨貓科動物、藝術創作及其之間的多元面向，在城市化與瞬息萬變的背景下，捕捉各大城市街頭生活的不同側面。
Hide & Seek, China’s City Cats, Hong Kong
躲猫猫香港
Photographs by Marcel Heijnen
攝影師：馬奕修
Published by ZIWU Culture, Modern Media
出版社：现代传播有限公司出版．誌屋文化
120 pages, 300+ color plates, 30 x 22.5 cm, Hard cover
120頁, 18 × 13.5 厘米, 精装
Simplified Chinese only
簡體中文
ISBN: 978-988-17972-0-9
At the end of 2015, Marcel Heijnen moved back to Hong Kong and began photographing cats. These cats inhabit corners of the city — in shops, temples, ancestral halls, construction sites, and along the streets — like kings and queens of their own domains. Because cats are elusive and unpredictable, he often had to return to the same location multiple times. It is precisely this uncertainty that made the process feel like a game of “hide-and-seek.” In this book, you will encounter the everyday life of Hong Kong’s shops — from stores filled with the rich scents of dried seafood and traditional Chinese medicine to the stone lions standing guard in the streets. In a single gentle gesture of touch, you will also glimpse the sincere bond between people and cats.
The book is divided into three chapters: “Together,” which presents the interactions between humans and cats; “Being,” which focuses on the cats themselves; and “Being Together,” which places the cats back into their surrounding environments. Poet Tam Jiong-Ching has written verses to accompany these vivid photographs, using concise language to connect with the deeper emotions behind the images. The cats are merely the starting point; what they ultimately evoke are memories of urban transformation, moments of slow living within a fast-paced world, forms of human warmth not yet shaped by technology, and the “neighborhood of home” that many of us have long forgotten.
‘Cats are, of course, the protagonists of these images. Yet at times, these furry little creatures also serve as “icebreakers” that anchor a scene — giving me a reason to smile at shop owners and exchange a few words before pressing the shutter. In China, such an opening often leads to a warm invitation: “Come, sit down and have a cup of tea.” In this way, those fleeting moments continue to live vividly beyond the frame.’ — Marcel Heijnen
About the Photographer
Dutch photographer Marcel Heijnen lived in Singapore and Hong Kong for over three decades and now divides his time between Amsterdam and Hong Kong. He has consistently developed a diverse body of photographic work, ranging from feline subjects to art-related themes and everything in between, set against the backdrop of urbanization and transience, capturing different facets of street life in major cities.
2015 年底，馬奕修搬回香港，開始了貓咪的拍攝計畫。這些貓棲身於商店、寺廟、宗祠、工地與街頭等城市空間的一隅，宛如各自領地中的國王與皇后。由於貓咪行蹤難測，他不得不反覆回訪同一地點；也正因這份不確定，讓他覺得自己正進行著一場「躲貓貓」的遊戲。你將在本書中看見香港店舖裡的人情日常，例如瀰漫著濃厚海味與中藥香氣的店鋪，以及街頭巷尾象徵庇佑的石獅子；也會在一個輕撫的瞬間裡，看見人與貓之間流露的真摯情感。
本書分為三個章節：「在一起」呈現人與貓之間的互動關係；「在」聚焦於貓自身的形態；「一起在」則將貓放回其所處的空間。詩人談炯程為這組生動的照片寫下詩行，在簡潔的文字中勾連圖像背後更深層的情緒。貓咪只是拍攝的引子，它所牽引出的，是城市現代化進程中的時代記憶，是快節奏中的慢生活，是尚未被科技物化的人情冷暖，以及被我們大部分人遺忘的「家的附近」。
「貓咪自然是這些影像的主角。但有時，這些毛茸茸的小生靈也像是凝住風景的『破冰者』——讓我有理由向店主微笑致意，在按下快門前寒暄幾句。在中國，這樣的開場白往往會換來熱情的邀請：『來，坐下喝杯茶吧。』讓那些瞬間在底片之外繼續鮮活地延伸。」—— 馬奕修
攝影師簡介
荷蘭攝影師馬奕修（Marcel Heijnen）曾在新加坡與香港居住三十餘年，如今往返於阿姆斯特丹與香港兩地生活與創作。他長期致力於發展一系列攝影作品，題材橫跨貓科動物、藝術創作及其之間的多元面向，在城市化與瞬息萬變的背景下，捕捉各大城市街頭生活的不同側面。
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