Jungle Line

(DIGI 1994-6) A Life in Publication

The DIGI name card I used with the magazine's launch in 1994. The logo - a narrow, elliptic, sharp at both ends shape was originally designed by Ka-Sing Lee, further developed...

The Tempestuous Life of a gallery (Lee Ka-Sing ...

  DOUBLE DOUBLE A Holly Lee and Lee Ka-sing online magazinePublished on Fridays since January 2019李家昇黃楚喬網上雜誌，逢星期五出版Writings/ Photographs/ Poetry/ Archives Click here to subscribe ++++++++++++++++++++++++++   JUNGLE LINE The Tempestuous Life...

(NuNaHeDuo DISLOCATION, 1 of 3) A Life in Publi...

In words: two photo columns in the mid-eightiesKa-sing was a man of words before his language proliferated into libraries of scalable, image-based syllables. For a number of years in the...

(NuNaHeDuo DISLOCATION, 2 of 3) A Life in Publi...

The first four years (1992-1995) The editorial direction of the early years of NuNaHeDuo was very free-wheeling, and with little restraint. Free-wheeling because we did not have any baggage, nor...

(NuNaHeDuo DISLOCATION, 3 of 3) A Life in Publi...

  DISLOCATION Volume 14, PDF format, 119 pages, published in July 2004. Edited by NuNaHeDuo Centre of Photography  This side towards lens “Will there be a chance to release the...

(QIU YÍNG SHĪ KĀN 秋螢詩刊) A Life in Publication

  Dancing flamesAmong the earliest publications Ka-sing made was a poetry journal called the Fire Blade 火鍔, a primitive hand-stencil-printed tabloid (195mm x 270mm, 8 pages, published monthly in 1969,...

(OP News) A Life in Publication

It all began with his love of publications (since a teenager), the people he met, the money he saved up from skipping lunch and spent it on books his school...

Ten Postcards

Postcards are short stories, each one a time capsule, a seed to grow and a fruit to retrieve at the receiver’s end. I have lots of them and every so...

OUT OF CONTEXT 外圍 The 15 Kennedy Road Exhibitio...

In the night sky of 5000 years of human history, the unique 150 years of Hong Kong colonial period is but an insignificant faint sparkle. And within that faint sparkle,...

Six Portraits

For me, the nineties in Hong Kong was the best of time. While hesitating about climate of the city's future, people inevitably had to move forward. Everything was in motion,...

Self-portraits of two photographers

Holly Lee, self portrait, 20028x8 inches, archival pigment print   One very interesting topic in photography, for me, is self-portrait. In the past, Ka-sing and I had been invited several...

Wing Words

I am not a philatelist, but once I liked to save up stamps. I have a passion for ‘small pretty pictures’ and there was a time when so many of...

Once upon a name card

It probably began in early 1975…Ka-sing used to be known by Wingo to his friends, a name he made up, a name that made me think of flying freely like...

The shape of Time. On Flip Books

  1. Flip Books as Optical ToysJohn Barnes Linnett made the world’s first flip book in 1868, naming his creation Kineograph but the object was later classified under “optical toy”....

Dislocated journeys

  (DISLOCATION, Journey Issue, June 15, 1995. Cover photo by Lau Ching-ping) In the Journey issue of Dislocation magazine published in 1995, the contributor Kith Tsang wrote in the introductory...

Spectators as Sky-Eaters

I gave up the hope of finding the exact position, where Chi Wo, in the Winter of 2003 made a pin-hole photograph pointing skyward at a junction in Toronto’s financial...

Postcard Talk

It has become my habit to place recently received postcards on bookshelves, lean against few thin books, or fat volumes of encyclopedias, so I would have more opportunity to meet...

Disturbing dusts on a bowl of cherries

At the dawn of launching the DOUBLE DOUBLE: Box-in-a-Valise exhibition, memory of a past experience triggers a lost thought. Years ago we had undergone a simpler, onsite installation similar to...

Remember me: Four Portraits

 Aunt, taken by King's Studio around late fifties.   Some of the photographs my mother left me are over seventy years old. A visual relic I would go over repeatedly...

Wingochrome and Holliblad

I’ve always wondered why Ka-sing had the name Wingo in his earlier years, that is from the seventies to the eighties. In my imagination, perhaps he likes freedom, he lets...

Photo image as metaphors: Two Photometers

(WINGO, Sixtron electronic, at ASA 64 / HOLLY, Lunasix 3, at ASA 64)   If at the age of butterflies.Instead we portraited ourselves as two photometers, or two light meters...

Studios (Stories under the Hazylight)

(1977, studio at 14 Lan Kwai Fong 蘭桂坊)   Flowery TalesWe painted the vinyl floor of our first studio, almost forty three years ago - a charcoal black. Deviated from...

Objects in Photographs (as Photograms)

  20x24 inches, gelatin silver photograph 16x20 inches, gelatin silver photograph   Wild GooseI have this wild goose kite for almost thirty-three years. In my wane memories, I bought it...