LIBRARY FEATURE: DISLOCATION (1992–1999) and Beyond,

DISLOCATION (1992–1999) and Beyond, published in 2023, is a 336-page hardcover volume in an 8 × 10 inch format. To date, it stands as the most comprehensive published documentation of the DISLOCATION project. While the print edition is available through BLURB, the complete digital edition is archived and accessible on the shelves of The Archive Library.

Between 2019 and 2021, Holly Lee wrote a series of essays titled JUNGLE LINE, reflecting on projects she and Lee Ka-sing had undertaken over the years. Three consecutive essays in this series, devoted to DISLOCATION, later formed the conceptual and structural backbone of this publication. In 2023, DISLOCATION (1992–1999) and Beyond was released as a special combined February/March print issue of DOUBLE DOUBLE. The volume integrates an extensive range of textual and visual materials, including a significant number of previously unseen documents and artifacts.

At the core of the book is Holly Lee’s principal essay, “The Life of a Publication,” presented in twenty-one segments, tracing the evolution of DISLOCATION across three decades:

  • Its early traces in Lee Ka-sing’s photography columns of the mid-1980s
  • The formative role of WORKS MAGAZINE (1988–89), a studio-based promotional publication
  • The emergence of transparency and translucency as guiding ideas (NûNaHéDuo ZERO and GLASS issues)
  • The first year of publication
  • NûNaHéDuo (1992–1995): 48 issues, four annuals, and an index issue
  • Fair Deal: a backyard playground
  • Free-wheeling and seeding
  • The OP Print Program and OP Editions (1994–1999)
  • The second stage (1996–1998): a shift in format
  • The concept of “Three”: Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
  • DIGI zine as a parallel track
  • OP fotogallery and NCP — the NûNaHéDuo Centre of Photography
  • Another city: OP fotogallery, Toronto (2000–2005)
  • The closure of NNHD’s second stage in 1999
  • Turning toward the lens: FOTO POST and e-books
  • DISLOCATION as an e-book, Volume 14
  • Landscape in Flux: the missing Volume 15, Geography issue
  • The second life of DISLOCATION
  • Recapturing time
  • Thirty years
  • The unfinished: Hong Kong Streets issue

The DISLOCATION publishing project constitutes not only a critical chapter in the development of Hong Kong contemporary photography, but also a cartography of Holly Lee and Lee Ka-sing’s shared journey—charting their movement from literary practice to visual work, and from artists to gallerists, organizers, and curators.