Justin Hui
(Hong Kong)Justin started photographing back in 2014 when he took a one-way flight to East Africa to document Chinese development for a year. Since then, he has drawn on his background in architecture and urbanism to explore themes that engender land development, absence, and memory. Besides photography, he also uses mediums such as archival research, writing, mapping, and found material. He is a registered architect who received his B.Arch from Cornell University and works between visual art, research, and architecture.
ConnectSearching for Poon
Poon, my grandmother, cannot remember her past.
I can only infer based on early memories of her and the stories which my relatives and parents have told me.
Old family photos and documents left behind become objective clues of her life. I use them to search and trace her past, creating an imagined narrative formed around the fragments of her life. The objective reality of her life and my remembrance converge into a single narrative that intertwine with personal memories and broader histories of Hong Kong.
These series of images become doorways to remembering and imagining the forgotten past where the boundaries between memory, fiction, and reality are blurred.
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