Memories are unforgettable pasts, and images retain every moment of ordinary life.
In 2021, the publication of photographer Jiang Jian's "Walk and See" 3 takes us back to the streets of Hong Kong and follows the footsteps of photographers to experience the ordinary days of Hong Kong people. In the meantime, let's review the wonderful stories of the first two volumes.
In the first volume of "Walk and See" in 2019, the photographer used his mobile phone to record the city he lived in, Hong Kong, recording the streets of the bustling city, the wonderful stories that happened every day, and reflecting the lives of ordinary people in the form of black and white documentary images.
With its unique form of expression, the black and white image can better highlight the subject with simple color, and put the bustling and lively metropolis of Hong Kong in our cognition in the quiet black and white gray, and the reader observes this colorful magic city through simple tones.
Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui, everyone has their own destination.
Hong Kong Island Quarry Bay, happiness is that ordinary people are still, under the dinner lamp, the same people sit in the same seats, talking about the same topic.
Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui, thousands of homes are full of lights, and it is the most emotional to know each other and meet.
Hong Kong Island Central, tonight the moon is bright people looking, do not know who to fall in autumn.
In the past, the city of Hong Kong gave us the first understanding of mainlanders, from the lights and lights of Hong Kong-made film and television dramas, but the photographer's lens is the busy figure of the people in the city.
The crowded office workers in the subway; the crowded people on the streets, the blurred images set off by huge billboards; the road singers singing casually in Stanley Square; the sharp sand mouths in Kowloon, the diners who push cups and cups at night; the fashionable girls in the cafes on the bustling commercial street in Central, Hong Kong Island.
Hong Kong Island Quarry Bay, you come and go in the rush, and it is fate to meet.
Hong Kong Island Quarry Bay, we are all in a hurry, because we all have dreams.
In Saigon, New Territories, every dark night, there is a chance to wait for the dawn.
Hong Kong, a multicultural metropolis, is the true meaning of ordinary life in the real world. What makes the reader most emotional is the photographer's interpretation of the work, and he wrote in the commentary of one of the works: "I hope that everyone has their own wonderful every day." "That's exactly what photographers do when they pick up their phones to truly document the city, so that the excitement stays in every sunrise and sunset."
Fast forward to 2020, and Walk and See 2 is published in the form of color images, expressing this modern magic city with bright colors.
"Perhaps, only after going through the events of the world, will you understand that what you have in front of you is what you should really cherish." - Quotes from photographers.
On Lan Hua Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Island, the pace of life is often too hurried, so we must learn to stop and watch the wind and clouds and enjoy the flowers.
Hong Kong Island Long Kwun Tong apm Mall, I hope that there will be years to look back on, and with deep affection.
Tseung Kwan O, Tseung Kwan O Square, freedom is not unrestricted freedom, freedom is a right to do whatever the law permits.
Hong Kong, an international metropolis with finance and tourism as the main economic sources, has been stubbornly and steadily running in the ups and downs of the year, and people have performed their duties and adapted to this sudden change in the busy green. The photographer did not put down his mobile phone because of this change, and walked in the streets and alleys as usual, recording every day of the difficult and strong life of Hong Kong people with the lens.
Some Lee Street, Central, Hong Kong Island, only when the song is on the wine, the moonlight always shines in the golden bottle - Li Bai
Tseung Kwan O CaiMing Mall, New Territories, may you have a light in your eyes and live as you want.
In the street near Erie, Central, Hong Kong Island, we did not understand when we were young, some movements at the beginning, singing the song to the end of the dispersal.
On Jingmin Street in Sai Kung, New Territories, when the night wind is quiet, there is only a river and bright moon blue glass - Su Shi
Hong Kong Island Admiralty MTR exit, life is a hundred years, the years have passed. Man is as small as an ephemera in heaven and earth. After thinking through it, the heart is like a mirror, and this life is like a song.
In the Temple of Guanyin in the Hung Hom Pavilion in Kowloon, life is a fate, and no request is open-mindedness.
Outside the Tseung Kwan O Tin Jin Mall in the New Territories, we live in an era when access to information is the cheapest and it is most expensive to distinguish between true and false.
At hung Hom Temple, people burn incense and pray for their families in front of bodhisattvas; a group of blonde foreigners talk endlessly at the entrance of a bar in Some Lee Street, Central, Hong Kong Island; Hualan Road, Hong Kong Island's Eel Chung, where machines rumble and a new road is paved in the busyness of workers.
Just like hong Kong and Hong Kong people now, no matter what difficulties and obstacles can not stop the pace of Hong Kong people's pursuit of a better life.
Yes, life goes on and the city will continue to usher in another dawn of calm and busyness.
In 2021, "hood" life, "Walk and See" 3 did not stop because of the epidemic. In the face of a global shutdown due to the epidemic, photographers took to the streets at the risk of contracting the epidemic to document the ordinary lives of people in Hong Kong who were ravaged by the epidemic.
In this sudden "battle", we are experiencing the fear, helplessness, loss, and wandering brought about by the new crown pneumonia and death, but we still have to live like a "cover". - Quotes from photographers
Hong Kong Island North Point MTR Station, in time, we are all passers-by.
In this sudden "war epidemic", we have experienced many difficulties brought about by the new crown pneumonia. But we still have to "live like a mask"
At MTR Causeway Bay Station, when you decide to go, the most difficult part is actually completed.
In the city under the shroud of the epidemic, there is an inexplicable sense of tension in the invisible, and the most common picture in the lens is that the people who come and go are more hurried. People's masks in the subway can't hide their anxious eyes, the supper stalls have been changed to takeaways because of the epidemic, and there are queues waiting for body temperature measurements at the entrance of shopping malls.
Kowloon Kwun Tong Rui Ho Street, people are willing to use the five tastes to describe life, should understand that taste is the feeling of everyone's heart.
At the resting place on Keeley Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Island, happiness does not depend on success or failure, it comes from contentment.
New Territories Tseung Kwan O Hou Tak Mall, with a pair of compassionate eyes to see the world, you will see a different scenery.
Saigon Sea Square, New Territories, to do ordinary things perfectly, is an extraordinary.
Kowloon Yau Ma Tei Fruit Bar, I love the rain because it brings the smell of the sky.
Even at such extraordinary moments, the optimistic side of Hong Kong people facing life has been left behind by photographers. On Keeley Road, Hong Kong Island's Eel Chung, several elderly people are killing in one place in the Chu River Han Boundary; kowloon's West Kowloon Cultural District, children scooters laughing and sliding into the distance, next to young people playing and singing themselves; on the square next to Sai Kung Sea in the New Territories, jugglers bring joy to people with their meager efforts.
Hong Kong Island Emperor Road life is a process, do not have to be too obsessed with the road, tired of walking, just stop and rest!
De De Street in Central, Hong Kong Island, and I still keep my eyes open at night because I saw your traces in the moonlight.
Hong Kong Island Causeway Bay Lee Yuen Hill Road, if there is no fate in the previous life, to be reunited, the next life wish.
This is life, the essence of life is full of challenges and uncertainties, the tenacious character of Hong Kong people has overcome this challenging year, we Chinese also overcome the terrible virus with perseverance and return to ordinary life.
On Pontian Zha Street, Central, Hong Kong Island, if we look in the mirror with a mask on, of course we will not see our true selves.
Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui Nos Fo Tai, cups touched together, are the sound of broken dreams - North Island
The once bustling world, because of the sudden "epidemic" quieted down, time seems to stop, everyone in this extraordinary year, experience those usual commonplace and habitual, but in this special year seems so precious! At the same time, I also learned to "cherish" and cherish the extraordinary of each day.
On the MTR Tseung Kwan O Line, the whole meaning of life lies in the endless exploration of what is not yet known, in the continuous addition of more knowledge.
On Bookstore Street in North Point, Hong Kong Island, people's life is a process of continuous waiting, and people always wait for the realization one by one, and then gain the strength to continue to wait for the next.
Life will experience an extremely difficult time, survive, the front will be a sudden dawn. We believe that the hard days will pass and Hong Kong will be better tomorrow! Looking forward to the next street encounter!
Wen | Wang Xiaoping
Photographer Profile: Joined China Travel Publishing House in Hong Kong in 1994 and is currently the General Manager of China Tourism Publishing House in Hong Kong. He is immersed in photography and is committed to promoting the creation and exchange between photographers from the two sides of the Straits and the four regions. Over the years, he has participated in the planning and organization and participated in various photography activities organized by the Hong Kong China Tourism Publishing House, including "Hong Kong Return Day", "Macao Return Day", "Turn of the Century", "Ten Years of Hong Kong's Return to the Motherland", "Ten Years of Macao's Return", "Photographers from The Four Regions of the Two Sides of the Strait - 24 Hours of China's Land" and "World Chinese Photographers - Impression Series Photography Activities", and successively photographed Taiwan, Macao, Beijing, Shanghai, Guizhou, Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Qinghai, Hunan, Zhejiang and Shandong with photographers from the four regions on both sides of the strait , Jilin and Sanya, Changsha, Huairen, London, Sydney, Nagasaki, Los Angeles and New York.