Portrait by Wallet


  • Photographer
    Chak Lui CHAN
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2011

We usually judge people by appearance. Yet you’ll see more from small “things”, like personal belongings. In this series, I choose instant film as medium for its imperfectness and uniqueness. The image is not sharp. Exposure and color temperature is often inaccurate. With the wrinkle and blot occurred during emulsion transfer, you just can’t get a flawless image. But who’s perfect? It is my expression of oriental aesthetics, "Mono no aware" (the pathos of things and awareness of impermanence). The emptiness of each piece is inspired by Chinese reciprocal aesthetics of void and solid. They reflect imperfectness and perfectness. Void is also a space for imagination. And the pictures completes with my seal carving. For this series, I work with the vintage camera, Polaroid ProPack.

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