Hong Kong-based Ringo Tang is a photographer/director active from the last decade to the present. His acute awareness of the art scene is seen in his many faceted photographic works.
Ringo Tang produced a series of photographs on Hong Kong in 1995 - two years before the hand-over of Hong Kong to China. The series is mono-chromatic and has a nostalgic and filmic quality that aptly described the majority of young people's feeling about returning to China - a mix of uncertainty, anxiety and speculation. The photographs also exhibit a kind of romanticism inviting people to re-examine what they have around them, collect mundane images, smells and sounds and even stop for a moment to grasp a piece of Hong Kong memory before 1997.
Titled "Hong Kong #3", this photographs appeared in the #21 issue of the publication Westcoast Line (Vancouver), and the exhibition "Autonomous City" held at the LEE Ka-sing gallery in 2001.
