第三屆香港攝影書節｜攝影書交流會：「翻頁之間：書獎之謎」

第三屆香港攝影書節

The 3rd Hong Kong Photobook Festival

講座 Talk

「翻頁之間：書獎之謎」

Unravelling Photobook Awards

主持 Facilitators: Phoboko - Michelle Chan, Jimi Tsang, Marty Miller

日期及時間 Date & Time: 3 May (SAT), 19:00 – 21:00

語言Language: 廣東話 Cantonese & 英語 English

地點 Venue: PMQ Courtyard & Marketplace

名額 Quota: 12 participants

#35 Photobook Club - Unravelling Photobook Awards

What Makes a Photobook “Of the Year”?

This May, our #35 Photobook Club will be part of the Hong Kong Photobook Festival! Join us for a critical dive into what makes a “winning” photobook. To find out, we’ll unpack four shortlisted titles and use them as material and metaphor to ask what gets represented, or excluded as a book rises to the top!

Photobook Club - 「翻頁之間：書獎作品解密」

一本攝影書如何成為「年度之選」？

今個五月，由Phoboko策劃的第35場 Photobook Club 將會隆重登場，並成為【香港攝影書節2025】的一部分！

在這次聚會中，我們將深入探討一本「得獎」攝影集的誕生背後有哪些秘密。我們會以入圍作品為例，從內容到形式，細細拆解當中精彩之處，並借此拋出更大的問題：一本「成功」的攝影集，究竟呈現了什麼？又排除了什麼？

這不只是一場閱讀，更是一場思辨與交流的盛會。快來加入我們，一起翻開攝影集世界的精彩篇章！

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Phoboko (short for: Hong Kong Photobook Club) was established in February 2020. It is a platform that brings people together through photobooks and the topics they contain. It adopts a distributed authorship approach in which participants with different experiences contribute and drive the community. As a community, Phoboko interrogates photography as a medium, promote the vision of local Hong Kong artists while in dialogue with other photographers in the Asia-Pacific region.

In Photobook Club meetings, photobooks are used as “social objects” for dialogues and knowledge exchange between participants. Group discussion ranged from how creators convey their concepts using photography and materialising them into photobook form, to exploring the culture, society, and history that the photobooks make visible. The community engagement approach in these meetings allows participants with different experiences to contribute and evolve topics for discussion. It fosters multiple ways of meaning-making which in turn drives the community to discover other interest points to photobooks.