NOT Street Photography ( 17 )

 

路經油麻地看見一對年輕基督徒為一名流浪漢祈禱。那男人緊扣雙手接受著陌生人的祝福。

關山難越誰悲失路之人 ？

在這人間世我們需要的是那一點同情心不管你是信佛還是信基督。

愛心仍然在人世間。

廖中仁  Liau Chung Ren

20220728hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren 

圖片：攝於油麻地 ／28mm / Original Monochrome File 

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NOT Street Photography ( 16 )

 

守門員永遠是貓貓。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220728hk

圖片：攝於旺角 ／ 28mm  /  Original Monochrome File 

NOT Street Photography ( 15 )

 

人類有百態。

有人要做【變形金剛】。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220728hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren 

圖片：攝於尖沙嘴 ／ 50mm / Original Monochrome File 

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【城市無題】City Without a Title ( 174 )

 

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220725hk

Instagram@citywithoutatitle / @frame25_ren

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【城市無題】City Without a Title ( 173 )

 

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220725hk

Instagram@citywithoutatitle / @frame25_ren 

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【城市無題】City Without a Title ( 172 )

 

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220725hk

Instagram@frame25_ren / @citywithoutatitle 

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【城市無題】City Without a Title ( 171 )

 

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220725hk

Instagram@frame25_ren / @citywithoutatitle

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NOT Street Photography ( 14 )

 

每一個人都有他的過去。

每一個人都曾經有過呱呱落地，被母親愛護的那一刻。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220704hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 圖片：地鐵隧道 ／ 28mm / Original Monochrome File

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NOT Street Photography ( 13 )

 

舊了就好。人老了就有風味，一個地方也一樣。

舊了就好看。

廖中仁  Liau Chung Ren

20220724hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 圖片：油麻地果欄 ／ 28mm / Original Monochrome File 

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NOT Street Photography ( 12 )

 

何謂：出家人 ？ 

戴上很酷的太陽鏡這位尼姑告訴你何謂【六根清淨】。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220724hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 圖片：攝於旺角 ／ 50mm / Original Monochrome File

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NOT Street Photography ( 11 )

 

我原以為這機械暴龍只是商家展示來做商業宣傳之用，卻原來是自治區政府用來‘慶祝’香港‘回歸’25週年的大型裝置之一。

用【暴龍】來慶祝在處於暴政之下的香港，這寓意我認為非常貼切。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220724hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 圖：攝於海港城天台 ／50mm / Original Monochrome File 

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NOT Street Photography ( 10 )

 

每一個人都有他喜歡做的事情，有人喜歡跑步，我則喜歡拍照。

這就是生態平衡。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220721hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 攝於土瓜灣 ／ 50mm / tap open image

NOT Street Photography（ 9 ）

「身在異鄉為異客」這些回教徒目前在香港已經無處不在，無孔不入。

他們以前生活範圍只限於尖沙嘴，油麻地等地區，不過現在跑到筲萁灣這些歷來以華人為主的地區也看到他們的蹤跡，他們對社區的滲透力非常強，逐漸建立自己的地盤擴充勢力。這須要我們警惕而不能掉以輕心否則久而久之鵲巢鳩佔。結果我們華人在自己的地方淪為少數而非大多數。

我家在尖沙嘴，就是在過去數十年看到這樣的轉變。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20222721hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 圖片：攝於筲萁灣 ／ 50mm  / tap open image 

NOT Street Photography ( 8 )

 

大地，須要灑水 。

因為地球在燃燒。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220721hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 圖片：中環建築地盤 ／ 70-200mm / tap open image 

NOT Street Photography ( 7 )

 

登高，並不一定望得遠，但起碼可以拍拍照。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220721hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 圖片：中環天橋 ／50mm / tap open image 

NOT Street Photography ( 6 )

 

一張標榜十個‘成功’的香港女人的廣告。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220721hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 圖片：中環 置地廣場對面／50mm / tap open image 

NOT Street Photography ( 5 )

 

生活在一個現代化都市裡面，圍繞我們的，是千萬棟無味乾燥的大廈群。我們拍它來有什麼意思？

彩色照片拍攝它不會顯得它‘很美’很特別，也包括了美國紐約【帝國大廈】。

但是黑白圖片總是化腐朽為神奇。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220721hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 圖片：K11 Musea / 50mm / tap open image 

NOT Street Photography ( 4 )

 

如果【黑白攝影】的基本乃「光」與「影」的對比，那麽此類圖片就是基礎。

我在互聯網上 （ 現在只要是在 Instagram 上面 ）看見成千上萬的黑白 ‘ street photography ' 差不多獨沽一味統一攝影風格，我很難分辨出哪個作品是屬於哪個作者。 一個孤獨剪影 ／單調建築物 （ 簡約背景處理 ）／以斜角分光影 （ 即：黑與白 ）。這基本調味成為了很多拍攝 ‘街頭攝影’玩家的固定模式。至於以我個人做例子，我不太喜歡從側面，或從高處用長鏡頭捕捉黑白剪影而是比較喜歡迎頭拍攝背光圖片，咔嚓一下子從中表現光和影，黑與白。

我們人類肉眼所看見的是彩色世界而黑白圖片是一個脫離客觀真實的呈現。人們往往輕易地叫它做：【藝術】，或誇讚為，某 ‘ 攝影大師 ’ 的【作品】。

但對於我而言它只是【黑白照片】而已。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220721hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

* 筲萁灣街頭剪影 ／ 50mm / tap open image 

NOT Street Photography ( 3 )

 

中國人愛吃田雞。

牢籠裡堆滿了田雞，不是人疊人而是蛙疊蛙。人，為了吃哪顧得一個青蛙的感受與痛苦？

青蛙在牢籠裡很靜，動也不動。青蛙在凝視我的鏡頭。他彷彿知道他們命運的安排。動物的悟性比我們愚蠢的人類要強的多，他們十分清楚他們的處境而能夠為自己的處境調整自己的心理和生理。

青蛙在凝視我的鏡頭。

動物，他們能夠和人類做心靈交流，英文叫：Telepathetic.

拍攝完畢，我在心中跟青蛙說：對不起啊青蛙，下次投胎不要再做田雞了。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220719hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

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NOT Street Photography ( 2 )

 

在筲萁灣街市經過時突然間有一條魚從魚檔水池裡面跳了出來跌在了地上。

它在地上痛苦掙扎了一會兒，被魚檔檔主很快的捕撈了上來馬上變回「商品」供人做今天晚上盤中餐。

可憐生命只有死路一條。

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

20220719hk

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

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NOT Street Photography ( 1 )

 

I'm opening up a new photo project : NOT Street Photography.

So, what's this silly term : STREET PHOTOGRAPHY anyway ? I see there are millions, if not BILLIONS of professional and amateur photo-takers showcasing their [ Street Photography ] on Instagram, a ' Street Photography ' of all kinds, better or worse. Internet is practically diluted by these so-called ' Street Photography ' being uploaded by [ Street Photographer ]. For me, a [ Photography ] is just a fuckin' PHOTOGRAPHY that's all and I don't give a fuck if you're taking pictures on the STREET, or INSIDE the hotel room shooting photographs of women's genitals, it's only a PHOTOGRAPHY, so stop being a SNOB, cos I don't like the term, NO not at all, it sounds and remind me of a Black punk talking in the gang-language ON THE STREET in America, well, that's a STREET we're talkin' about, it sounds so cheap. 

I haven't touched Black & White Photography for very long time, well, since 1989 the Year of the JUNE 4th, the last time I remember was my photo assignment commissioned to me by Japanese major Publication BUNGEI SHUNJU,which they specifically asked me to do it on Monochrome Films. It was an important 6 page photo story on Hong Kong's HANDOVER in 1997, the deadline was so close after I completed the entire shoots. Eventually I took some 30 rolls of undeveloped Kodak T Films to Tokyo in the cold winter night in February that year. Photography had developed so much since then, and after I saw the apex of my career in the Year 1997, I have been through many years of downturn in my profession having endured really frustrating period of time, quite undignified. Until I had big break in 2014, when I had the privilege of shooting for Reuters Pictures for the coverage of OCCUPY CENTRAL-UMBRELLA REVOLUTION. My career was then restored, being a Photographer is never easy. 

I started my career as an editorial photographer, taking pictures as a contributing photographer based in Tokyo from 1989-1991 for ASIAWEEK ( closed in 1997 ). The training and experience I have learned during those early years have contributed much, to my photography today and I'm thankful that I came to understand what ' Editorial Photography ' is all about before I encountered wire service much later in my career. Now, that Hong Kong is DEAD under a POLICE LAW that forbids all civil disobedience, rallies and protests, I have decided to spend more time to dedicate myself for something else, the choice is, naturally, BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY, or simply, Monochrome Photography. So I take my Canon 5D MkIV, EF50mm f/1.8 ( I call it, Malaysian Lens because it's assembled in Malaysia, a cheap but very sharp piece of crystal a little shy of 900 HK Dollars ) and 28mm f/2.8 lens and start shooting on the street in Black & White ' Films '. Limit your focal length if you want to be a better photographer, I started my photography with 28mm f/2.8 a cheap non-Canon fixed focal lens attached to Canon AE-1 Program, I couldn't afford extra lenses as a poor young man at the time. Now, I prefer to work almost only on 50mm, some says that Henri Cartier-Bresson prefered 50mm for it's natural perspective, so as Francis Ford Coppola, he shot his masterpiece GODFATHER primarily relied on 50mm lens for it's ' intimacy ' which he was seeking specifically in his visual expression for the movie. 

It is a good feeling eliminating colours out of your photographs reducing it only the contrasts between light and shadow, yes, Monochrome Photography offer different sense of beauty.

Get a LEICA M, that expensive piece of shit, and shoot Black & White with Summicron Lens, that'll make you a  ' Magnum ' Photographer AUTOMATIC lol. I see many pretentious snobs from major Wire Service doing that, moreover, thousand of amateurs shooting rubbish with Leica M. Well I'm not that clown, but just a plain guy working on Canon camera and lenses, cos that's more than enough for me.

So, enjoy your shoot ON THE STREETS motherfuckers.

Liau Chung Ren （ 廖中仁 ）

20220719hk

* Photo : Fish vendor selling eels at Mong Kok Market / Canon 50mm f/1.8 / Original Monochrome File 

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【苦】

 

人生的負擔在肩膀上。人活一輩子苦多樂少。

廖中仁 Liau Chung-ren

2022, 7.14

Instagram@monochrome25_ren / @frame25_ren

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【讀】與【看】之間

 

試問「讀」與「看」之間，「文字」與「數碼」之間「書本」與「手機」之間的距離有多遠？

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

2022, 7.14

Instagram@frame25_ren / @monochrome25_ren 

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【 城市無題 】City Without a Title ( 170 )

 

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

2022, 7.7

Instagram@frame25_ren / @citywhithoutatitle 

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【 城市無題 】- City Without a Title ( 168 )

 

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

2022, 7.5

Instagram@frame25_ren / @monochrome25_ren 

‘ 回歸 ’ 25 週年 - 6 的詛咒

 

昨日乃香港 ‘ 回歸 ’ 偉大祖國25週年翌日， 即：七月二號。

可惜天公不造美，七月初香港來了一個非常不及時的颱風從6月30日至7月2日打了整整三日暴風雨，挺厲害的。我昨天早上去尖沙嘴海邊逛了一圈看看有什麼圖可以釣上來，不料在回程時出地鐵口就遇上暴風雨，結果，在地鐵出口處避了一個多小時的傾盆雨。這來得很不恰巧的颱風一下子把所有 「回歸 」慶典給搞砸了，無論室內或室外。其實，在【7.1】早上那直升機例行表演能如期進行已經很幸運，特區官員捏了一把汗。有時候氣象這東西也非常應景，上帝的旨意無處不在，人生就是那麽的玄。

無獨有偶，昨日 7月2日正好是陰曆6月4日，就差那麽一天。

6月不祥，陰曆陽曆亦然。我看中共是擺脫不了【6】的詛咒。

2022, 7.3

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

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【 城市無題 】City Without a Title ( 167 )

 

廖中仁 Liau Chung Ren

2022, 7.3

Instagram@frame25_ren / @bluuren

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