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香港寸金尺土，摩天大樓不斷拔地而起。在攝影師馮建中（1955–2023）多重曝光的鏡頭下，擁擠的石屎城市幻化成超現實幾何影像。仔細審視這些無人地帶之際，誰不會問：什麼把我們推進如此境地？
Hong Kong is often cited as the city with the most high-rise buildings and highest population density. Yet more skyscrapers are being built to fulfil economic ends. Various reclamation projects along the city’s coastlines have made way for gigantic architectural mega-structures, further narrowing our harbour. Older buildings are torn down with no consideration for urban conservation or regeneration. While there are buildings with low or zero occupancy, developers continue to feed their insatiable desire to play the market game as residential and commercial property values rise at an escalating rate. Meanwhile, housing remains a major concern to citizens—for people living in tightly packed spaces with no privacy, owning a home is the highest aspiration of many, and a home mortgage becomes a lifelong obligation.
How much higher will our one square foot go? We are helplessly trapped in this city jungle of architecture, including photographer John Fung (1955–2023). Fung’s One Square Foot challenges us to seek a different appreciation of the open, geometric abstraction and complexity of spatial relationships in our concrete city. While aesthetically intriguing and disarmingly amiable—and at times one will be lost in these people-less images—Fung’s new series of multi-exposure photography works literally triumphs over the emptiness of this purposeless congestion. One begins to question what puts us in such an unsympathetic city situation.
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馮建中
香港攝影藝術家馮建中（1955–2023）在非洲馬達加斯加出生，13歲時與家人回到亞洲，並在澳門接受教育，最後在香港定居。愛好攝影的他於八十年代舉辦了名為「菌」、「繭」、「茫茫十年」和「路上」等多個展覽。於1988年，他得到英國文化協會以及亞州文化協會的資助，到倫敦和紐約進修。1989回港至2004年間，在《壹週刊》《明報週刊》任職新聞攝影師。在2005年，被香港樂施會及綠色和平邀請成為義務攝影師，拍攝在2004年海嘯被破壞的地區，並前往非洲及東南亞等地作記錄。多年來繼續為非營利組織參與及義務工作，多年持續關注森林過度開發及全球暖化等災害問題。
馮建中作品曾於2008年由 MCCM Creations 出版攝影集《樓花》，可視為其創作歷程重要的轉折點。。在2009年四月，他被蘇富比選中的香港藝術家之一，作品以當代亞洲藝術品於蘇富比進行拍賣。多年來，馮建中的作品於多個不同地方展覽，包括：哈納特廣場、亞洲協會、香港藝術中心、香港香港文化博物館、台灣誠品書店和台灣國際視覺藝術中心，以及廣東美術館和新西伯利亞國家美術博物館等展出。作品被私人和博物館收藏。
John Fung
Photographer John Fung Kin-Chung (1955–2023) was born in Madagascar, Africa. At the age of 13, he moved back to Asia with his family and was educated in Macau, finally settling in Hong Kong. In the 1980s, John Fung held four photographic exhibitions: ‘Germs’, ‘Cocoon’, ‘Ten Years On’ and ‘On the Road’. In 1988, he received two grants, from the British Council and the Asian Cultural Council, to study in London and New York City. After his return to Hong Kong in 1989, John worked as a documentary photographer for Next Magazine and Ming Pao Weekly Magazine until 2004. In 2005, he was invited by Oxfam and Greenpeace Hong Kong as a volunteer photographer to document areas which had been devastated by the 2004 tsunami travelling to Africa and Southeast Asia. He continues to participate in voluntary work for non-profit organisations.
In 2008, his photography book One Square Foot was published by MCCM Creations, marking a major turning point in his creative career. In 2009, he was one of the Hong Kong artists selected for Sotheby’s Sale of Contemporary Asian Art in Hong Kong. In 2020, Let There Be Light was published which includes most of the best ‘Water…Now’ series. Over the years, his works were featured in different magazines, also exhibited at Hanart Square, Asia Society, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Heritage Museum in Hong Kong, Eslite Bookstores and Taiwan International Visual Arts Centre in Taiwan, as well as Guangdong Museum of Art and Novosibirsk State Art Museum. His works are in many private collections.
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MCCM Creations
MCCM Creations，香港出版社，2001年成立，出版範疇包括視覺文化、建築、設計、藝術、詩歌及繪本。出版社相信書的製作不止於文字和圖像，它是一個整合想像、意念、情感、經驗和工藝的創造過程；每本書更是作者、編輯和平面設計師的結緣。
跨體裁、雙語／多種語言是 MCCM 出版物的特色，正如出版社身處的城市香港一樣，繁雜而多元。MCCM 的作者有部分是土生土長的香港 人，也有在香港生活了二、三十年的「老外」，他們在自己的專業領域和生活中累積經驗與知識，無形地支撐着城市文化的滋長，讀者往往可以從他們的書中找到各種閱讀城市的獨特視野和方法。
Since entering the world of book publishing in 2001, MCCM’s aspirations have remained consistent to bring readers original and inspiring books from authors and designers who share a passion for books as objects, as well as a strong desire for exploring hybrid concepts.
MCCM titles are about the visualisation of experiences, stories and perceptions through the printed word, images and sound. We live in an age where people move freely across boundaries and inhabit areas of virtual space that intertwine to create new concepts and ways of living. These cross-disciplinary realities are at the core of MCCM fusing illustration, visual art, design, architecture, photography, socio-culture, and literature. Diversified as they are, our titles have ‘crossover’ appeals to different age groups and interest groups.
MCCM titles have a strong cultural slant that falls into two broad categories: visual culture books related to architecture, art, and design in Hong Kong and neighbouring regions, and illustrated fiction and picture books for children and young adults with the aim of nurturing intellectual and aesthetic development beyond the regular school syllabus. A majority of our titles are published in English or in bilingual (Chinese-English) editions.
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