Photography

The photogrphic pracitce by Fong Hin Nam

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

Blueprints of an Intangible Interior

10” x 8”
Cyanotype exposed with a 3D printed stencil
2021
Blueprints of an Intangible Interior is a diptych of two pseudo-symmetric cyanotypes. The two prints are the photograms from one negative model of a 3D scan of an interior space. Both prints articulate gradations of Prussian blue and blurry outlines due to the thickness of the 3D printed stencil. The prints are exposed from two angles of the scan – one bottom-up and one top-down. There is no perspective involved in these photograms due to their orthographic nature.

Caprice (the missing island)

10” x 8”
Toned cyanotype
2020
Caprice (the missing island) is an alternative printing project hybridizing traditional printing methods – cyanotype and laser engraving technology to address the connotation between historical images and nowadays interpretation. The floating island is a fabricated structure constructed by a procedural modeling practice with the data of a historical image of Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital. This artwork is an experiment to the application of historical material in a media art practice as well as to decontextualize and conceptualize archival material.

Caprice

180 cm x 45 cm each (set of 3)
Inkjet on paper
2019
Caprice, an English translation of an Italian word capriccio, refers to a category of paintings usually presents a group of architecture in a fictional manner. Beyond the original form, panoramic and inconsecutive visions carry much more than our perceptions to an architecture. The caprice way of seeing liberate my observation of the city.

Caprice (reflection)

26cm x 60cm
Cyanotype
2019
We always live in the phantom place.

We Don’t Need a Model

11 inches x 14 inches (set of 3)
Silver gelatin print (fiber-based paper)
2019
This project is experimenting with the form of clothes as materials for making temporary soft sculpture. In traditional fashion photography, models are usually being materialized as living hangers for fashionable items. The photos are also experimentation to question the role of models in fashion photography in media and the materiality of clothes.

International Water


60cm x 40cm (diptych)
Bleached cyanotype
2019
No tyranny can ever rule the international water.

Mere Etudes

22 cmm x 28.5 cm
Photobook
2018
This book is an exploration of Fong Hin Nam to his journey in studying piano. As most of the students in Hong Kong, he was also being forced to learn piano in his early year. After he finished his grade 8 qualification, he is not required to learn the piano anymore. Nevertheless, he found that the piano becomes something inevitable to him. Therefore, this project is to acquire what is beyond the examinations on his journey to study. He recreates the printed materials, objects as well as shoots based on his experience and pieces he used to play before. His creation expands his own experience to the phenomenon of Hong Kong students learning instruments as well as to criticize the value of studying music in Hong Kong.

Family Picture

16 cmm x 17 cm
Toned Cyanotype
2018
I don't see my family picture a photo, but an object.

Contributing Destruction

50.8 cm x 50.8 cm each (set of 6)
Inkjet on paper
2017
Shooting with film is a process to construct images on a light-sensitive agent. I first shot the scenes where I studied and burnt the film with the tools that I often used in the past to imitate how my memories were fading and being remodified as my ideal form.