136 Obscura World 1

Rorce Lau
Obscura World 1 (2024)
Inkjet printed on archival paper
30 x 30 inches

Artist Statement

Born and lives in Hong Kong, Rorce Lau is a fine art photographer from Hong Kong.  He lived his early years as a business professional in the commercial world till, at his mid-age, he reconnected with his innate urge as an artist.  In 2012, Rorce completed his Master of Fine Art study with his works focusing on the ideological change of Hong Kong people since the Sino-British political handover.

What happened in the last few decades created the paradigm shift and inner dilemma in many Hong Kong souls.  Majority of Rorce’s works capture the intricacies of humanity, to be or not to be, as both an individual and social inhabitant facing external forces.  The existence of oneself in physical reality is illustrated through a photographic language that is synchronously abstract and narrative, hence his works are mostly poetic and sentimental. 

Rorce is currently the part-time lecturer at Hong Kong Art School, teaching digital photography for a fine art bachelor program for RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University).

出生和生活在香港，劉德銘是一位土生土長的香港藝術攝影師。 他早年在商界從事商業工作，後來他找回了作為藝術家的意慾，重新學習及投入攝影創作， 並於2012年以中英政治交接以來香港人的意識型態變化為題完成了他的藝術碩士課程。 他的作品關注香港過往數十年社會意識形態轉變，並以此作為不同創作題材，通過揭示社會變化如何影響個人在社會中的存在來展示複雜的人性。他的攝影語言同時具有抽象性和敘事性，並散發獨有的詩意和感性。劉德銘現為香港藝術學院兼職講師，為香港藝術中心與皇家墨爾本理工大學合辦的藝術學士課程教授藝術攝影。