Artist Bio
藝術家簡介
Jason Au
Jason Au (b. 1994) is an award-winning photographer based in Hong Kong. Jason specialises in street and fine art photography, with black and white as his preferred medium of expression. His high-aesthetic works often incorporate creative, geometric and balanced compositions.
His street photography series “Hong Kong Lines and Patterns” comes with the compositional approach of isolating urban subjects, geometric elements and forms from the chaotic urban environment of his hometown. The series portrayed the way of life of different urban subjects in the context of their surrounding geometric environment, which were all culled from mundane everyday scenes. Nevertheless, those subjects look trapped and lost inside an artificial geometric labyrinth without realising it - perhaps this series is also a metaphorical view of urbanity and the hectic contemporary way of life within a metropolis like Hong Kong.
Jason has won numerous international photography awards, including Shortlisted in the “Sony World Photography Awards” (Architectural & Design Category, Professional Competition) in 2022, 2nd Place in “LensCulture Street Photography Awards” (Single Image) in 2021, 1st Place in “International Photography Awards (IPA)” (Street Photography Category) in 2021, 1st Place in “IPA - One Shot: Our Times - Pandemic Perspectives” (Isolation Category) in 2021, 1st Place in “ND Awards” (Street Photography Category) in 2021, 1st Place in “Paris Street Photo Awards” (Street & Architecture Category) in 2021, 2nd Place in “Fine Art Photography Awards” (Street Photography Category) in 2021, Silver Prize in “Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3)” (Street Photography Category) in 2021, Silver Prize in “Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA)" (Portfolio - Fine Art), and Best 50 Photographers in “BNW Minimalist Photography Prize” in 2021 etc., as well as many other Honorable Mentions.
Jason’s works have been exhibited in London, New York, Athens, Ghent (Belgium), Trieste (Italy), Tuscan (USA), Orlando (USA), Portland (USA) and Minneapolis (USA).
His works have been featured in the South China Morning Post, the Guardian and the Observer.
Jason is an artist at Blue Lotus Gallery of Hong Kong and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (FRPS).
歐忠信
生於1994年，Jason Au（歐忠信）是一名屢獲國際獎項的香港攝影師。他專攻黑白攝影，尤其對藝術攝影及街頭攝影感興趣。他的作品往往融合了幾何元素、光影對比及精準的構圖，突顯攝影主體的形態。他希望用相機把身邊一𣊬即逝的片刻細節凝結下來，變成驚豔的黑白作品。
《香港幾何圖形》是歐氏一直在進行的街頭攝影系列，其攝影風格將香港的市井百態從混沌中挑選出來，把芸芸都市人物角色的一舉一動與他們身邊的幾何環境並置着。他等待時機，以捕捉這城市難得井然有序的一剎那間。最後呈現出來的，不僅是香港這個大都會的寫照，更意味着當代都市人的生活風格。
歐氏曾獲得多個國際攝影獎項，包括2022年「索尼世界攝影大賽」建築與設計組別（專業組）入圍作品、2021年「LensCulture街頭攝影獎」單張相片組亞軍、2021年「IPA國際攝影獎」街頭攝影組別冠軍、2021年「IPA國際攝影獎 - One Shot: Our Times - Pandemic Perspectives」組別冠軍、2021年「ND攝影獎」街頭攝影組別冠軍、2021年「巴黎街頭攝影獎」街頭與建築組別冠軍、2021年「FAPA藝術攝影獎」街頭攝影組別亞軍、2021年「巴黎PX3攝影獎」街頭攝影組別銀獎、2021年「布達佩斯BIFA國際攝影獎」藝術攝影作品集組別銀獎及2020年「黑白極簡主義攝影獎」最佳50名攝影師等，以及眾多榮譽獎項。
其作品曾在多國展出，包括英國（倫敦）、意大利（的里雅斯特）、希臘（雅典）、比利時（根特）及美國（紐約、明尼阿波利斯、波特蘭、奧蘭多、圖森）。
香港《南華早報》、英國《衛報》及《觀察家報》曾對歐氏的攝影作品作專題報道。
歐氏為香港藍蓮畫廊（Blue Lotus Gallery）的攝影藝術家及英國皇家攝影學會最高榮銜的博學會士（FRPS）。
Review
評論
“His fine art aesthetic combines with a street photographer’s sensibility and the compositional approach of isolating urban subjects to produce thought-provoking works that turn the mundane and everyday into something unique and magical.”
“他的攝影美學糅合了街頭攝影師的觸覺及將城市不同角色抽離化的表現方法，創作出發人深省的作品，也將平凡生活的片刻細節轉化成獨一無二且奇妙的事物。”
“Starkly graphic, minimalist and almost meditative, Jason Au’s photography of Hong Kong casts the buzzing city in a completely different light.”
“You are a talented photographer with high aesthetic criteria and a restless spirit… You look for the expectational in the ordinary and you know how to make it visible. You are also a perfectionist who wants to control everything inside the frame through geometrical and balanced compositions. Even you act like a street photographer, the result has a fine art quality and direction.”
“鮮明的圖形、極簡主義，也許令人深思的攝影作品，Jason Au以獨特的眼光重新呈現了香港這座繁華的城市。”
“你是一位才華橫溢的攝影師。你具有很高的審美眼光和孜孜不倦的心境……你能在平凡事物中看到不平凡之處，並且懂得如何使其變為眼前一亮。你也是一個完美主義者，想要通過幾何元素與平衡的構圖來控制攝影框內的一切。即使你拍的是街頭攝影，但出來的作品總有藝術的質量和意境。”