Memories Of The Absence

• Photographer
  Suet-sum Lai, Hong Kong
• Website
  http://www.suetsum.com
• Instagram
  suetsum.l

This is a story between me and an absence in my childhood.
Memory, as defined, is something remembered from the past.
What I remember the most about my childhood are not the things
really happened, but the consequencing emotions. Because of
this, the creation process of this series was extremely difficult
from emotional perspective; it was a pain to recall the fragments
out, to re-encounter and to admit them, which created rather
strong emotions that I did not expect. In this series, I crafted my
photos with the emotions from the fragments of memories of an
absence on my mind.

It is not a conclusion, but part of the process of my life. No
matter what has happened, they have passed, and I know, I do not
lost hope since I always live in the present but not in the past.

Suet-sum is a photographic artist who always gets inspired by the pure state of nature. With this as the creative core, she extends this to art themes that she is interested in, including time, childhood, memory, identity, dream, reality, vanities, visible, invisible, consciousness, sub-consciousness, as well as the different state of mind in daily life. She hopes to bring out sense of silence and poetic feeling from her works.

Awards Winner of WMA Open Photo Contest 2018, Hong Kong

Photo series “Memories of An Absence” was awarded Honourable Mention in the Fine Art People Category in the 2015 Prix de la Photographie Paris Competition (PX3), France

Photo series “Memories of An Absence” was awarded Honourable Mention in the Fine Art Portrait Category in the 2014 International Photography Awards Competition (ipa), United States

Single photo “The Deformation of Narcissus” was awarded Honourable Mention in the Fine Art People Category in the 2014 Prix de la Photographie Paris Competition (PX3), France