Aiming at giving support to talented young artists who use photography as their creative medium, since 2010, Lumenvisum has organized the “New Light: A young talented photographer series” to sponsor young photographers to hold their first solo exhibitions. This year we proudly announces the winning candidate of “New Light V”, CHAN HONG YUI CLEMENT, and his selected photo series titled “Ed-It-Yourself”. As a “Post-90s”, photographer Clement Chan integrates digital manipulation into snapshot. Figures often become separated from their original context. By doing so, the illusion of depth within each frame begins to crack, forcing viewers to question the so-called photographic truth. In this era when everyone can “snap” a picture with mobile devices, “snapshot” seems to become a derogatory term to describe photographs. In “Ed-It-Yourself”, Chan applies digital manipulation to each photograph to differentiate it from ordinary snapshots. Sometimes the manipulation is obviously digital, other times it mimics graffiti, street art or drawing. Chan believes that picture making, the act of transforming reality into a photograph, is already an inevitable process of manipulation. Framing, juxtaposition, exposure, the decisive moment, etc., all become parts of what he calls “mental manipulations”. “Digital manipulation”, therefore, serves as his way to visualize the underlying “mental manipulation” within each photograph. In “Ed-It-Yourself”, Chan re-examines the meaning of snapshot in relation to photography as art in this digital era. Opening Reception: 31/5/2014，6-8pm Artist Sharing 日期Date: 21/6/2014 時間Time: 3-5pm