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Wood art, HK Int'l Photography Festival & in the studio: singer-songwriter Emmy the Great

2018-11-28

Wood art, HK Int'l Photography Festival & in the studio: singer-songwriter Emmy the Great

2018-11-28
We look at wood, a material that’s relatively common in Hong Kong’s less built up areas, but one that we often fail to use to the best of its advantage. As Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong in September, it uprooted more than 60,000 trees. Some 7,000 tonnes of tree debris ended up in our landfills, but a few artists have decided to rescue at least a little of this material and turn it into art.

The Hong Kong International Photography Festival was set up eight years ago by 19 local photographers. Since then it’s grown bigger and spread to more venues. This year the festival focuses on Japanese photography. One of the major exhibitions in the festival showcases 50 years of iconic black and white pictures from the well-known photography magazine “Provoke”, founded in 1968. Another major exhibition is the first local solo exhibition of works by the late photographer Nakahira Takuma. The festival also features a satellite exhibition of 20 artists’ works, as well as talks, screenings and workshops.

As a singer, Emmy-Lee Moss is better known as Emmy the Great. Born in Hong Kong to a British father and a Chinese mother, she moved to England when she was 12.
She’s since spent time in New York and Los Angeles among other places to pursue her music career. The songs on her first two albums, “First Love” and “Virtue”, focus on her own experiences. “Virtue” details her pain and confusion when a formerly atheist fiancé found religion and decided to break off their relationship. Her third album “Second Love” examines the interaction between our digital age and human emotions. Emily’s now back in Hong Kong, and she’s here to tell us more.

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