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We love Macau—but let’s face facts: it doesn’t take long to tire of all the usual tourist haunts. If you’ve done Fernando’s a hundred times, and the mere mention of Senado Square elicits a yawn, then it’s time to head off the beaten path on your next visit to the area. Fortunately, our sister SAR has plenty to do just a little way off the beaten path. Read on to discover our favorite, lesser-known Macanese delights.
Sofitel Macau at Ponte 16
1. “Follow the golden rule—there are no rules,” says Suttarno. “Blurry, out of focus—it’s all good. It might not capture the exact replica of an object, but instead a new way of looking at it.”
Using its rudimentary camera, Mohan roamed the streets capturing fleeting, everyday moments in the city—from dried fish hanging from ropes to sunbathers at Shek O beach to taxis criss-crossing over an intersection. Filters dramatize the colors, rendering them bright and saturated. The result is a panoply of photographs published in “Vivid Hong Kong,” a new 128-page hardcover book that offers glimpse after glimpse of the city’s colorful underbelly.
Photography is all about telling a story, and “The Underground Scene”— an exhibition spotlighting Hong Kong as a haven for street photographers and celebrating photography’s exciting and endless evolution—hints at the epic story behind the culture of street photography in Hong Kong.
With shiny black hair parted sternly down the middle, Atsuro Tayama is as distinctive as his fashion collections. The 57-year-old designer errs on the serious side—preferring to be seen in dark suits. Tayama’s spring/summer 2012 collection, on the other hand, is in stark contrast to his meticulously crafted persona. In fact, Tayama has created a series of zip-up dresses, Hawaiian skirts and abstract prints that are more colorful than the rainbow; not one shade or hue has been spared.
On Fame
When I came out here I was lucky. I joined Warwick Haldane [founder of Haldanes Solicitors and Notaries]—he was doing exclusively criminal work—and within two weeks I was involved in a case. The allegation was that a Mrs. Wong was running a prostitution racket, and the defense was that no, far from it, they were film starlets.
HK Magazine: Can you tell us a bit about your works in this exhibit?
Kacey Wong: What I’m doing is trying to trace back to my own heritage and pick up on sayings that were in everybody’s mind [e.g. the text in the pictured sculpture, “Work hard, strive for it”]. But if you think more deeply about it, these kinds of values are no longer important. Working hard, having honor and duty and a good work ethic is a kind of 60s lifestyle, it’s almost gone. We can see our younger generation becoming so soft [laughs].
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