#37 Voices in Focus: Photobooks by Women
A sharing of photobooks from Hong Kong
Michelle Chan, founder of Phoboko, will join us for a photobook reading night where
she will share photobooks by women artists from Hong Kong, in alignment with
the current exhibition “Women in Photography and Film 2025: What We Carry.” She
invites participants to bring photobooks by women artists to share and read
together in a group session, extending the conversation around themes of care,
resilience, and hope as expressed through photographic works by women in book
form.
Some of the books she will bring along are:
Origin by Victoria Li
Condo Convos by Linda Cheung
Limbus Mundo by Shaiana Po
Presented in collaboration with Phoboko, for the Women in Film and Photography showcase.
About the Speaker
Michelle Chan is a relational artist who works primarily in photography, using various collaborative methods to create her artworks. In addition to her individual artistic practice, she is committed to working with photozines and photobooks as mediums to create relations and community engagement. She founded Phoboko and 1:1 Studio. Phoboko is a platform that connects people through photobooks to explore the themes they contain, exchange ideas, and create collaborative works. 1:1 Studio is an independent experimental space dedicated to the “one photobook, one exhibition” project, where the concept of “listening to a photobook” is explored through exhibition-making.
About Phoboko
Established in 2020, Phoboko (short for Hong Kong Photobook Club) is a platform that brings people together through photobooks and the topics they contain. Through regular meetings, photobooks are used as “social objects” for dialogues and knowledge exchange between participants. Group discussions range from how creators convey their concepts using photography to materialising them into photobook form, to exploring the culture, society, and history that the photobooks make visible. As a community, Phoboko interrogates photography as a social medium, promoting the vision of local Hong Kong artists while in dialogue with other photographers in the Asia-Pacific region.