HONG KONG

The photobook “HONG KONG” by photographer and artist Saiko Otake (b. 1988). This self-published zine, released in 2020, compiles photographs taken in Hong Kong during Otake’s visit in 2018. It was produced alongside “VIETNAM” in preparation for her solo exhibition “GALAGALA” that same year.

Otake photographed a variety of things encountered in the streets of Hong Kong, including snack packaging, facility maps, cardboard adorned with illustrations, bus bodies, and neon signs. Rather than capturing cityscapes or landmarks, she focuses on colors, letters, shapes, and forms found in everyday surroundings.

Otake habitually carries a compact camera and continues to photograph things that catch her eye, as if collecting them. Her method of combining photographs to create new relationships between colors and shapes also resonates with drawing and collage.

This volume is one in a series of self-published photobooks that has been ongoing since “NIPPON” in 2016. At the solo exhibition “GALAGALA,” held at PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO in 2020, photographic works with the same layout as the spreads in this book were also exhibited.

[Title] HONG KONG
[Publisher] Self-published
[Publication Date] 2020
[Number of Pages] 60 pages
[Size] Approx. 141 × 206 × 4 mm / 152 g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] -
[Title Reading] Hong Kong
[Author/Editor, etc.] Saiko Otake / Photography and production
[Printing/Binding] -
[ISBN] -
[Condition] Used [8]: Excellent to above average (slight wear on cover, minor tears at edges)
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[Related Exhibition] Saiko Otake “GALAGALA” (PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, 2020)

Saiko Otake (b. 1988)

Born in Japan in 1988. An artist who works across multiple media, including photography, drawing, painting, and collage. Graduated from the Graphic Design Department at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in 2016.

She photographs landscapes, signs, letters, product packaging, people, plants, and other things encountered in daily life and while traveling, creating works through combinations of colors and forms. She has continuously published self-produced photobooks and zines since 2016.

Held solo exhibitions “KINMEGINME” at gallery ART UNLIMITED in Tokyo in 2018, “COSMOS DISCO” at DIESEL ART GALLERY in 2019, and “GALAGALA” at PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO in 2020. In 2022, she held a solo exhibition “WARP TRIP” at AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY AOYAMA.

In the 2020 “Young Portfolio” exhibition at Kiyosato Photo Art Museum, 10 works from series such as “MITAKA6537 / MURAKAMI5572” were acquired.

Major self-published photobooks include “NIPPON,” “STAR STAR,” “FORMOSA,” “KINMEGINME,” “SAMPLING#09,” “PAPAPARIS,” “FINDER,” “HONGKONG,” “VIETNAM,” “UWAJIMA⇆TOKYO,” and “WARP TRIP.”

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