Catkaling
Fellow, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, ARPS (Pictorial), ARPS (Creative); MEd (Distinction), HKU; MA, CityU, PCEd (Distinction), HKU; BA (First-Class Hons), CUHK
Catkaling is a straight-A student. With her solid literary and philosophical background, she is capable of visualizing and materializing poetic beauty in her works. She has a special way with both photography and the written word. Poetry suffuses her images, and her words paint vivid pictures. Together, they blend into something wondrously new and evocative. The originality of her work has been recognised both locally and internationally with prizes and grants.
Venture into the unknown, well-prepared ....
2008 Mt Kinabalu (4093m), Malaysia (the highest in Southeast Asia)
2009 Everest Base Camp (5200m), Tibet
2009 Mt Kilimanjaro (5895m), Tanzania (the highest in Africa)
2010 Ice-climbing at Seoraksan (雪岳山), South Korea
2010 Mt Elbrus (5642m), Russia (the highest in Europe)
2011 Lenin Peak (6000m reached), Kyrgyzstan
Despite her fragile body framework, Catkaling has conquered Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest in Africa, and Mt Elbrus, the highest in Europe. The same courage drives her to venture into the realm of creative photography. With her adventurous and never-give-up spirit, she is able to come up with, time and again, unique and innovative photo-taking techniques. With her imaginative power from Mars, she has created time and again unique images unimaginable in the human mind.
Since 2013, Catkaling has kept experimenting with her original camera techniques. Her extraordinary one-shot bubble images display concrete images with a multitude of textures, colours and brushstrokes. Her amazing fireworks photos were taken using a great variety of focus-ring techniques and self-invented filters. Her continuous high-speed animal pics were weaved into mesmerising mandala-like universes. Her frozen flowers become winning landscape photos with sculptures of AIR created by the natural laws of freezing. With secret recipes of exposure settings, she is able to capture confidently butterfly-in-flight pictures.
This is why she has not only won awards in both local and international contests, but also been invited to give talks in various occasions and venues about Creative Photography.
A Writer and Photo Poet:
2011 A Cup of Chinese Wisdom (Hong Kong: Bonham Media)
2015 Bubble Instants (Hong Kong: Asia One)
After the publication of her photo-poetry books, A Cup of Chinese Wisdom and Bubble Instants, Catkaling has earned herself the reputation of a photo poet.
In A Cup of Chinese Wisdom, through simple words, poetic lines and refreshing photos, Catkaling bridges traditional Chinese philosophy with the contemporary realities of our daily lives. This book has won her a $23000-grant from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2011.
Her photo book featuring the photo poem, Bubble Instants, has won her the title of Second Runner-Up in the Hong Kong Photo Book Award 2014, and Honourable Mentions in the International Photo Book Awards 2016 in the United States. This series was recommended by the Royal Photographic in Britain for the Associateship Distinction. As many as 48 “Bubble Instants” photos were honorably selected into the 2015 Salons of Trierenberg, Austria. This book is also prestigiously recognized by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, which awarded the author a generous grant of $23700.
 Mt Kilimanjaro(5895m), Tanzania 2009the highest in Africa |  Mt Kilimanjaro(5895m), Tanzania 2009the highest in Africa |  Mt Kilimanjaro(5895m), Tanzania 2009the highest in Africa |
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 Mt Kilimanjaro(5895m), Tanzania 2009the highest in Africa |  Mt Kilimanjaro(5895m), Tanzania 2009the highest in Africa |  Yangshuo 2009a rock-climbing trip |
 Yangshuo 2009a rock-climbing trip |  Seoraksan 雪岳山, South Korea 2010an ice-climbing trip |  Garaebi, South Korea 2010an ice-climbing trip |
 Garaebi, South Korea 2010an ice-climbing trip |  Seoraksan 雪岳山, South Koreaan ice-climbing trip |  Mt Elbrus(5642m), Russia 2010the highest in Europe |
 Mt Elbrus(5642m), Russia 2010the highest in Europe |  Mt Elbrus(5642m), Russia 2010the highest in Europe |  Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan 2011 |
 Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan 2011 |  Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan 2011 |  Singing Dune, Kazakhstan 2012 |
 Singing Dune, Kazakhstan 2012 |  Hong Kong 2017 |  Hong Kong 2017 |
 Hong Kong 2017 |  Hong Kong 2017 |  Hong Kong 2018 |
 Hong Kong 2018 |
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