REVIEWS
(敬称略、順不同)
この本に収められた写真を見て、香港を知り、愛する者は、いつのまにか瞼にたまっていた涙をぬぐうだろう。
失われたものは、失われたというそのことによって、かつてそこに存在していたときより
いっそう輝きを増して僕たちの前に夢幻のように現前するからだ。
でも、僕たちがそれに気づいたのはそれを失ってからだった。
この本のなかには、失われたことによってより強く存在するようになった幻がある。
鈴木正文『GQ JAPAN』編集長
被写体の世界に一定の距離を計ってカメラを向けていて、
ドアの奥に暮らす人々の情景をページをめくる我々の想像に任せている。
その向き合い方からは、礼を尽くした品が感じられとても美しい。
鯛 知子
CondeNast Japan Vogue & GQ
香港に一番最初に行ったのは学生の時で、初めて東南アジアに辿り着いた私にとって全てが刺激的で印象的でした。
この本を見た時、写真の撮り方、色合いなどから昔の香港を思い出して懐かしく、またその場所を訪れたい気持ちになりました。
香港をもう一度好きになりそう！
フィリップ・テリアン
天然スキンケアブランド”DAMDAM” 創業者
president TFC Japan
Totally…beautiful poetic feel to the images and the stories…well done!
Max Vadukul photographer
The book is so incredibly beautiful.
The pictures are wonderful—they really give a sense for the vanishing parts of Hong Kong and the texts are very heartfelt.
I’ve actually never been to Hong Kong, but the book makes me feel like I have now.
Jeremy Liebman photographer
A treasure of a book from cover to cover.
The images profound and heartfelt.
Like time standing still, powerful and moving.
Bravo!The words to accompany the images equally moving In depicting a tragically vanishing culture.
Ruben Toledo artist, illustrator, filmmaker
Isabel Toledo fashion historian Author, Designer
I was very impressed with the poetry and precision of the choices.
The photos are stunning and the intensity of the book only heightens as the pages turn.
David Thomas SOLUTION -conceptual and interior designer
It’s the Hong Kong I also remember through my long photo-walks in the city.
Great photos that for me capture the memory but also the essence of the city.
Thanos Zakopoulos CTRLZAK creative and interior designer
These powerful photos make me want to book a ticket to Hong Kong to see for myself these disappearing neighborhoods.
Beyond Hong Kong, the book inspires us to notice places others might have overlooked or that may disappear soon.
This book is a reminder to find and create humanity in daily life.
Mike Abelson -product and interior designer, president Postalco
As China opens a new chapter in the history of the world, Hong Kong too submits itself to housecleaning. Where time always seemed absent in the tiniest corners of daily life, it suddenly must be measured. But withering gold on wooden signboards can't keep up, nor do cracked turquoise tiles, salty chickens under flickering neon tubes and vermilion paint peeling off storefront gates. Hong Kong – this sentimental and wistful outpost of our imagination darkens fast in the shadow of skyscrapers. With photographs and empathy Naoko Inagaki Krell captured the remnants of a fading way of life, gives our imagination a book to hold on to.
Roland Hagenberg writer, artist