Mr. Lau Koon Tan, first photo book, The Way We Were, comprises 108 beautiful Hong Kong photos back in the 60s and 70s, primarily not previously released, and is divided into seven parts: “Transportation”, “City”, “Public estates”, “Living”, “Hardship”, “Children”, and “Country”.
《The Way We Were》是劉冠騰先生的第一本公開發行的攝影集，收錄108張香港60、70年代的美麗照片，書中大部份的相片是首次發行的，分為“交通”、“城市”、“大型公共屋村”、“生活”、“艱辛”、“兒童”和“鄉村”七個部份
Mr. Lau Koon Tan won the Black and White Photography competition by the Chinese Photographic Association of Hong Kong and the Photographic Society of Hong Kong back in the 60s and 70s. He was an honourable member and judge of many photographic societies.
劉冠騰先生早在上世紀六七十年代就曾在香港中華攝影協會和香港攝影學會舉辦的黑白攝影比賽中獲獎無數。 他是多個攝影協會的榮譽會員和評委。
Sothebys.com - “Aside from Fan Ho..., Specializing on realism and pictorial of Mr. Lau Koon Tan...Interpreting Hong Kong’s complicated walk of life, there always inadvertently infiltrate a deep affection of the local.”
蘇富比——“除了何藩先主……，只有劉冠騰先生的寫實拍攝, 準確地詮釋了香港的複雜生活模式，總是不經意間滲入當地人的情感中。”
This is a large 30cm x 30cm hard cover photo book with cloth spine, 120 pages, Japanese paper, printed in Hong Kong.
ISBN: 9789887583806
Exhibition at 1881 Heritage from Oct 2022-Jan 2023
South China Morning Post release: https://sc.mp/zjzk
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