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無以名狀的力量 The Unspeakable
自2019年中開始，除了被水炮車射中受傷那段期間，新聞攝影記者陳朗熹差不多沒有缺席任何一個抗爭運動。一直以來，他只抱著一個單純的目的：多一支鏡頭多一份真相。在2019年的下半年，面對每天不同的抗爭日程表，即使自認是運動「鐵膽」的抗爭者，也未必能夠保証每次可以親身參與。對於記者而言，能夠堅持天天上路。除了是專業所需，驅使他們行前多一步是更多的是「無以名狀的力量」。
翻開陳朗熹的攝影集，有似曾相識的影像、有登上國際媒體的影像，但更多的是平凡且觸目驚心的影像。陳朗熹認為在整場運動中，大部份時間我們都處於仿如在催淚煙深處的迷糊狀態——戴著防毒臉具在毒霧中摸著石頭過河。即使如何緊貼前線，也未敢能說勾勒出運動的大概。回想在1997年香港回歸過渡前後，許多創作都以九七回歸為題，人們以為香港會一朝變天，希望在仍能呼吸自由空氣時盡地一鋪有話盡說；九七過後極權並沒有一夜蒞臨，卻在廿二年後以更強硬的方式席捲全城。2019年香港掀起歷史新一頁，二百萬人的力量在這場風暴中凝聚。
我們堅持自資出版這本影集，只期望能在歷史和個人之間，在這埸運動中留下註腳；也希望能表達我們的坦誠與謙虛。一位攝影師的影響力也許有限，然而翻着一頁接一頁的運動照片，百感交集，無以名狀。2020年，香港人再次被疫症陰影籠罩，但抗爭路仍漫長，歷史巨輪仍未轉向，我們定當堅持下去。
Except for a brief period after he was wounded by a water cannon, photojournalist Chan Long-hei has rarely missed a protest since they began in mid-2019. From the start, he has embraced one simple goal: get one more shot, get one more image of the truth. In the second half of 2019, he faced a different protest schedule each day – even the protestors who consider themselves the movement’s “fearless” have not been able to guarantee they will be at every protest. Yet journalists are capable of great persistence and of hitting the streets daily. Apart from this being a professional necessity, what drives them forward to an even greater extent is something that cannot be expressed in words, something “unspeakable.”
Turning the pages of Chan Long-hei’s collection, there are images that induce a sense of déjà vu and images that have made their way into the international media. Many more of the images, however, prove to be mundane yet shocking. Chan Long-hei believes we have for the most part been in a state of confusion throughout the entire movement, as if submerged in tear gas – wearing gas masks, we have been groping for the rocks that will allow us to find our way across a river shrouded in poisoned fog. Even someone who has somehow managed to stick close to the front line doesn’t dare sketch an outline of the movement. Recalling 1997’s handover transition period, much of the creative output dealt with the ’97 handover. People assumed that Hong Kong would suddenly change forever, and hoped to express themselves while they could still breathe freely; after ’97, totalitarianism did not arrive overnight, yet 22 years later, an increasingly hard line is being drawn everywhere in the city. 2019 saw a new chapter in Hong Kong's history, with the strength of two million people united in the midst of this storm.
We insist on self-publishing this collection, hoping only to leave a footnote to the protest movement that falls somewhere between the historical and the personal, as well as to express our frank sincerity and humility. A photographer’s influence may be limited, but leafing through the pages with these photographs from the protests, a variety of feelings well up for which there are no words. In 2020, the people of Hong Kong are once again standing in the shadows of an epidemic, but the road of resistance remains long. The wheel of history has not yet turned, so we must persevere.
翻開陳朗熹的攝影集，有似曾相識的影像、有登上國際媒體的影像，但更多的是平凡且觸目驚心的影像。陳朗熹認為在整場運動中，大部份時間我們都處於仿如在催淚煙深處的迷糊狀態——戴著防毒臉具在毒霧中摸著石頭過河。即使如何緊貼前線，也未敢能說勾勒出運動的大概。回想在1997年香港回歸過渡前後，許多創作都以九七回歸為題，人們以為香港會一朝變天，希望在仍能呼吸自由空氣時盡地一鋪有話盡說；九七過後極權並沒有一夜蒞臨，卻在廿二年後以更強硬的方式席捲全城。2019年香港掀起歷史新一頁，二百萬人的力量在這場風暴中凝聚。
我們堅持自資出版這本影集，只期望能在歷史和個人之間，在這埸運動中留下註腳；也希望能表達我們的坦誠與謙虛。一位攝影師的影響力也許有限，然而翻着一頁接一頁的運動照片，百感交集，無以名狀。2020年，香港人再次被疫症陰影籠罩，但抗爭路仍漫長，歷史巨輪仍未轉向，我們定當堅持下去。
Except for a brief period after he was wounded by a water cannon, photojournalist Chan Long-hei has rarely missed a protest since they began in mid-2019. From the start, he has embraced one simple goal: get one more shot, get one more image of the truth. In the second half of 2019, he faced a different protest schedule each day – even the protestors who consider themselves the movement’s “fearless” have not been able to guarantee they will be at every protest. Yet journalists are capable of great persistence and of hitting the streets daily. Apart from this being a professional necessity, what drives them forward to an even greater extent is something that cannot be expressed in words, something “unspeakable.”
Turning the pages of Chan Long-hei’s collection, there are images that induce a sense of déjà vu and images that have made their way into the international media. Many more of the images, however, prove to be mundane yet shocking. Chan Long-hei believes we have for the most part been in a state of confusion throughout the entire movement, as if submerged in tear gas – wearing gas masks, we have been groping for the rocks that will allow us to find our way across a river shrouded in poisoned fog. Even someone who has somehow managed to stick close to the front line doesn’t dare sketch an outline of the movement. Recalling 1997’s handover transition period, much of the creative output dealt with the ’97 handover. People assumed that Hong Kong would suddenly change forever, and hoped to express themselves while they could still breathe freely; after ’97, totalitarianism did not arrive overnight, yet 22 years later, an increasingly hard line is being drawn everywhere in the city. 2019 saw a new chapter in Hong Kong's history, with the strength of two million people united in the midst of this storm.
We insist on self-publishing this collection, hoping only to leave a footnote to the protest movement that falls somewhere between the historical and the personal, as well as to express our frank sincerity and humility. A photographer’s influence may be limited, but leafing through the pages with these photographs from the protests, a variety of feelings well up for which there are no words. In 2020, the people of Hong Kong are once again standing in the shadows of an epidemic, but the road of resistance remains long. The wheel of history has not yet turned, so we must persevere.
170 pages, Hardcover
Published June 1, 2020
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June 14, 2023
即使沒有caption，沒有日期，見到種種畫面也清楚知道是在甚麼occasion影的。透過影像展示捕抓到的時刻，用呢種方式呈現出來，對件事有另一番體會。
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