Deaf Photography

In the media interview, a reporter had asked me why like photography. I think that the photography is so interesting, because any thing or any person was frozen on the paper. It is convenient than drawing. Nowadays, the traditional film camera has almost been replaced by digital camera, which is enough to popularize like mobile phone. Moreover, the digital camera is user-friendly. Any person without photographic skill and knowledge may also operate it.

The deaf has a talent for photography and often express their feeling on the photo. They are hard to hear any voice, whereas their eyes are sharp to view any thing which sometimes the healthy persons ignore.

In order to prompte and develop the photographic capacity for the hearing-impaired persons, the photographic club for the deaf was set up from a group of the deaf photographers in the leadership of Mr. C. K. Auyeung, who is the hearing-impaired photograpic instructor, on 15 July 1999. By means of this establishment, it is hoped that the deaf can develop their strength in the care and support from the community. The photographic club also promotes the well-being of the hearing impaired and seeks to ensure equalization of opportunities for hearing impaired persons.

Friends, are you interested in photography? The photographic club encourages the deaf to prompte their interest in the photography and develop their full potential. If you are the hearing impaired persion, welcome you become our member. $50 is required for the annual membership fee every year from 1 April to 31 March next year.

The photographic club provides some kind of activites as below:

Activities and Training: to held the lectures on a wide range of topics from photographic techniques and printing through to digital photography irregularly.

Outdoor photography: to prompte the members' the photographic techniques through outdoor and indoor activities.

Voluntary Service: to undertake the photographic work in Hong Kong Centre of The Hong Kong Society for the Deaf.

Quarterly Competition: to held the photographic competition regularly by 4 times every year. The well-known guest photographers are invited to judge. The prize and awards are rewarded to deaf winners.

Seminar: to invite the well-known to give seminars on a topic of photographic techniques.

Exhibition: to held a large photographic exhibition opening to the public.

On 8-10 January 2006, the photographic club had organized the 4th photographic exhibition about the topic of collage photography to pay the homage to great David Hockney. It was a significant and praiseworthy in the photographic exhibition and getting an appreciation with strongly supporting from the professionals and citizens.

Most importantly, it could enlighten the hearing impaired persons' thinking in the process of the making the exhibition. They found many interesting things that was seldom got the attention in Hong Kong. Please view my two photographic works as below:














On 26-27 January 2008, the photographic club organized 120 Angle of View Photographic Exhibition. It helped the hearing-impaired photographers to introspect their meaningful life as well as enlarged happiness events (upward) and unhappiness events (downward). The following photographic work reflected my studying road over 30 years:









The photographic club will be 10th anniversity next year and will organize a series of celebrations and activities. I hope you can give the great support to the hearing-impaired photographers for developing their photographic arts.

If you want to know more about the photographic club for the deaf, please visit the official web site as below:
http://www.hkpcd.org (Chinese only)

Welcome you leave a message in the forum for communicating and sharing photography-related topics:
http://forum.hkpcd.org (Chinese only)