Lee Ka Sing will be in Hong Kong and bring in the work of international renowned photographer Araki Nobuyoshi.

Say good bye to the only photo gallery in the city, bring your own wine, come to the opening party, join the year's climax of Hong Kong photography.

The opening will be on March 19 (Mon), 6-8pm. Exhibition runs through March 25 (gallery hours 2-7pm). Lee Ka-sing will be in the gallery available for meetings with friends, interviews with press or interested parties.

For more information you can email Lee or call during that week at 2521-3862.

Araki Nobuyoshi is represented by LEE fotogallery Toronto, owned by Lee Ka-sing. All photographs of the exhibition are available to collectors. Araki has published a huge number of photo books but his original photographs are rare on the market. Price of his prints is rising. His work appears in most of the international major photo festivals and events in the last 5 years, and is mostly in the collections of major museums.

LEE fotogallery represents some of the most important contemporary photographers of Asia including Araki Nobuyoshi (Japan), Yao Jui-chung (Taipei) and Rong Rong (Beijing).

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Photos taken in 1993, is an important series of work in the photographer's career. It is a continuation to Araki's much applauded work "From Close-range", a series of black and white still-life he took after he lost his wife Yoko in 1990.

If we see the work from "From close-range" an intent on internalizing Yoko's death, then the work in Erotos might be "revitalizing" that spirit and transforming it into something totally celebratable. Araki confronts his subjects at even closer range, using ring flash to capture crisper images with unimaginable details. These images are so personal and in such proportions that they take on an almost surreal quality.
The extremity makes them other-worldly, as if they were out of an erotic daydream. Plants, genitalia narrate, snails, lips and lizards are all silently whirling into one.

The whole body of work consists of 48 pieces of black and white photographs, all 20"x24" gelatin silver prints on fibre paper. The series was shown at Bienal de Sao Paolo 1998 and LEE fotogallery in Toronto photo festival, 2000.

Newsletter republished with permission from Mr. Lee