The exhibition captures a time and an optimistic zeitgeist now lost: “Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Dransfield says: “The photograph “Datong Boys, Summer ‘86” epitomizes this exhibition for me and expresses a moment of liminality. Taken from across the desolate basin of the Shi Li river directly facing the Yungang Buddhist caves, the boys stand between child and adulthood. In 1986, China was also at a liminal moment.

For those endless-seeming four months I took image after image, roll after roll of 120 film with my trusty Seagull camera and thus creating an archive of over 700 images of a time now long gone.

Each print is sold on a first come first served basis, and is produced by hand by Danny Chao of Chao Digital on museum quality Hahnemuhle paper and each signed and professionally framed image is unique, incorporating hand-written and chopped descriptions by the artist. Ten percent of all proceeds will be donated to the Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute, located in Portland, Oregon (www.cc-tdi.org ). 

For more information please contact: Patrick Dransfield, Mobile: 9887 0943 / Email: patrickdransfield@gmail.com OR

Joanne Chung, Board Executive Secretary, FCC: Tel: 2844 2830/ Email: adminoffice@fcchk.org

Patrick Dransfield is a long-term resident of Hong Kong SAR, an MA graduate of Chinese History, Politics and Anthropology (SOAS) and a member of the FCC. This is Patrick’s fourth photographic exhibition: the exhibition ‘Elemental Hong Kong ‘is also currently on display at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Exchange Square, Hong Kong.