Photography series by Stephanie Hsu

Hong Kong / Philippines Series
by Stephanie Hsu

www.shsuphotography.com | hsus@usc.edu


“My Way of Saying Home”

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Hong Kong nights never sleep, never lose light. Gusto mo? Duck for dinner at the night markets.

Capturing the Hong Kong skyline at dust. A passerby in Manila sells yellow ribbons in remembrance of Corey Aquino.

Feb 12, 2010 | Filed under Art.

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  1. L.A.Blogger

    It’s interesting that the photographer/artist here gives us four samples of her work. The notion of four suggests positionality, the internal and external directions of identity, north, south, east, west, and everything in-between, outside, or beyond.

    There’s the journey into cultures of neon, illuminations in night-lights, the addictions of wakefulness without neutralities in the erotics of club-life, where dreams pour drinks, words, and other radioactive preconditions.

    There’s the melancholy of dusk veiling structures of commerce, day-time apprehensions, desire, slowly ushering them into dimension of suspensions, where time isn’t day or night, but the relaxations and resuscitations nourished in emptiness.

    There’s transubstantiation through culinary activities and adorations, to deactivate or reactivate memory, fantasies, or phantoms of national affiliations.

    Then there’s the consciousness of the political, the materiality of its fantasies through shades of yellow, color of light, revisions, recalculations, reformulations, or possible hope.

    Mar 14, 2010 @ 4:22 AM


  2. Stephanie Hsu

    That is such a well written response of my work. I love the way you described my photos, and I probably wouldn’t have been able to write such a piece!

    Thanks for the appreciation of my work!

    Mar 24, 2010 @ 4:08 PM

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