Photobook:《圈境 Enclosed Landscape》 

ISBN：978-99965-692-1-0

Book Size: W200mm x H225mm

Pages: 116 pages

ISBN: 978-99981-60-20-0

Publisher: brownie publishing ltd.

Copies: 150

Edition: 1st Edition, Jun 2023

Price: MOP 360/HKD 350

Available at brownie publishing (Hong Kong)

‘Enclosed Landscape’ is a project by Macau photographer Alan IEON on the city’s landscape. In the city of spectacle casinos and romanticized landscapes, IEON has focused his camera on the man-made temporary structures hidden beneath these grand spectacles – construction hoardings – in a typographic attempt to show readers a different Macau from the stereotypes seen on the internet.

As a photobook dedicated to these ‘unfinished’ construction structure, the book does not want to restrict the reader’s way of reading and imagination of the landscape, so it adopts the accordion pull-out pages in a roundabout format, allowing the book to be read either in a forward or backward manner, with the reader being able to turn the pages in different forms, such as a two-page set like a normal hardcover book; or the pages can be stretched out on the table in a four-page set to imitate the wavy shape of a hoarding. Alternatively, the whole pages can be pulled out to stand up with the cover, transforming the book into a hoarding-like installation. As the pages are placed side by side, they naturally form another continuous, impenetrable wall. And within this wall of paper, ‘Enclosed Landscape’ hopes to re-examine with the readers this ‘same landscape’ in various narrative structures, while challenging with the author the seemingly natural relationship between development, landscape and power.

《 圈境Enclosed Landscape 》為澳門攝影師Alan Ieon（楊俊榮）關於澳門地景的攝影計劃。在奇觀式的賭場與浪漫化風景林立的城市中，楊氏把鏡頭對準了埋藏在這些大型奇觀底下的人造臨時建築物──建築圍板，以類型學的形式，嘗試為讀者展示一個與網絡上看到刻板印象不同的澳門。 

作為一本針對一種「未完成」建築物的攝影書，《圈境》並不希望限制讀者閱讀的方式以及對書中地景的想像，因此採用手風琴拉頁、以迴遊形式製作，使得全書無論是順讀或反讀均可成章，而讀者更可按不同形式，如像普通精裝書般以兩版一組的形式翻頁閱讀；又或是把書中拉頁模仿為圍板一般的波浪形狀，以四張一組的形式拉伸延展於枱面上；更甚者可嘗試把整條拉頁拉出連封面一同立起，使書本蛻變為一件如圍板般的裝置藝術品。當這些充滿圍板的頁面並排放置時，書頁自然形成另一堵連續、不可逾越的牆壁，《圈境》希望能夠在這面由白紙製作的牆壁上，與讀者一同重新審視這「相同的景觀」，並邀請各位能在不同的敘事結構下，與作者一同挑戰那種與發展、景觀與權力之間看似自然的關係。

除了獨特的結構外，本書亦邀請了香港視覺藝術家與策展人葉曉燕 (Rachel IP) 小姐與澳門攝影藝術家雨果・特謝拉 (Hugo Teixeira) 先生撰寫序言文章，分別以當代攝影及澳門社會的不同角度探討本書的景觀影像。

Stranger in the Strange Land

From: 2013

A long-term street photography documentary project made in dummy book about photographer’s hometown Macau to show the change and the system behind the economic blooming of the city.

Photobook: Mǎorganic

Publish Date: March, 2017
Author: Alan Ieon, Rusty Fox, Jack Wong, tkh
Design: Ho Si Man, Dialect
Publisher: Dialect
Edition: 1st edition
Printer: Welfare Printing Ltd. (Macau)
Copies: 300
ISBN：978-99965-692-1-0

Available at brownie publishing (Hong Kong)

Enclosed Landscape

From: 2017 – 2022

Enclosed Landscape is a landscape documentary project related to unused empty land which is fenced and unseen by the locals in Macau waiting to be developed. The project seeks to rediscover and discuss the relationship between the view of the landscape and the urban development of the city.

Mǎorganic

From: 2016-2017

Mǎorganic is a group documentary work explore the relation between man-made and natural objects in order to understand how they change or rectify people’s perception to what nature is. The word Mǎorganic comes from Chinese word Mǎo (literally mean no or nothing) and the English word organic.

  Availiable at brownie publishing (Hong Kong)

Border and Boundary – Border of Hengqin

From: 2016-2017

The Landscape project belong to part of the project to continuing documentary of the island of HengQin, a place which belong to China yet have a closer and closer economical relationship with Macau. The Series focus on the Border between these two places: Macau and HengQin and thus try to discuss the identity, development between these two cities in comparison with the day-by-day dissolving border lies between them.

Dummy Book: Stranger in the Strange Land

Publish Date: March, 2016
Author: Alan ieon
Dummy Book

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