A Snap Beyond Borders

Stage performance is instant, and its photography goes into another approach of aesthetics: documenting the present, provoking dialogues and extending imagination. The continuous accumulation of stage images in Hong Kong is an important project in the history of local art and culture.

‘A Snap beyond Borders: An Online Archive and Education Project of Hong Kong Theatre and Performance Photography’ is organised and curated by the International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong) (IATC(HK)), and is funded by the HKSAR Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme (ACDFS). Stage images taken by six important Hong Kong stage photographers, Tse Ming-chong, Kwan Pun-leung, Ringo Chan Tak-cheong, Cheung Chi-wai, Tsang Man-tung, and Leo Yuen Hon-wai, will be documented. The bilingual digital database would be of great significance and would be the first to combine Hong Kong stage images with outlined theatre history and oral history of stage photography.