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Celebrating a birthday and need a professional photographer?
Here are just some of the many colour photographs from shooting MM90's birthday party. The people, the decorations and entertainment were absolutely amazing, along with incredible costumes. A lot of happy faces and laughter throughout the night. I think over 50...
The Muse has arrived in the form of a cloud
I finally signed it. I call this painting Visitation, No. 2. (Mixed-media on canvas, 180 x 120 cm.) it's a rather large piece of artwork that would look great in a large ornate room. Someone asked me why I called it 'Visitation'. I have always believed...
Portraiture with Character
I have been a photographer since I was about 13 years old when I first learned how to shoot with a film camera. My brother Wayne taught me the ropes in a few lessons. We developed film using chemicals and printed in the darkroom. Yes, black and white photographs on...
My studio space is REAL
For those who don't know, I am a visual artist and not just your ordinary photographer. I do not have a typical photography studio with white walls and all the latest electronic gadgets and electrical toys. My setup for a portrait session is using the simplest of...
“Le tourbillon de la vie”: an excerpt of my life as a visual artist living in Hong Kong
Every now and again I create a small pdf of my recent artworks that I've created, along with few other selected artworks. It allows me to relook at works at a certain distance and to also see what really speaks to me; I only include the ones I really like in the mini...
Hong Kong Artist Accepts Bitcoin as Preferred Currency
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Hong Kong Artist, Norm Yip is Now Accepting Bitcoin as Preferred Currency Hong Kong, 02 January 2018. Norm Yip is an independent artist that has fully adopted the use of Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency, as his preferred currency for his...
Closer to Truth: painting or photography?
Someone asked which one I liked more: painting or photography. I didn't know the answer. It depends I said.What I do know after investigating both mediums in my work is this: painting lies closer to truth than photography. Paintings (unless you're merely copying, but...
Letting your unconscious mind do the work, as it’s more creative than you ‘think’.
Several months ago, I came to the conclusion that I was going to start make one drawing a day, so that by the end of one year, I would have 365 little creations. To alleviate the fear and pressure (which we have enough in our daily lives already), I decided that to do...
First dream of 2017… about consciousness…
My first dream of 2017 had me sitting in a plain room with no decoration. A man walks in this room wearing a button-down shirt and sits himself across from me. He asks me "What are thoughts on the consciousness"? I started to answer him citing different levels on...
Grinding the midnight oil on color proofs and preparing files for my 3rd photography book.
The last few weeks I have been working on my usual night time hours, where there is silence and darkness outside and around me. I have spent the entire day working on printing up my own set of color proof on my Canon Pro-1, using a semi-gloss paper that I find very...
A few shots of Wei from 2006
I thought I would post a few images that are in my archives. Here are 3 photographs of Wei, which were taken back in 2006. With hardly a body to speak of but the willingness and spirit to let me photograph him during his budding youth, I was pleased to have him in...
Wilfred Wong – Hong Kong
It’s not every day that I have the opportunity to photograph a professional Asian male model for my collection of images, but here he is — Wilfred Wong. He’s got a superb beautiful smile and a personality that is sweet and sincere. The shoot went on...