Halftone Exhibition’24

The Macao-based HALFTONE Photographic Association celebrates its third anniversary with the "Halftone Exhibition'24", which features works by twenty-four of its members.

Exhibiting works by multidisciplinary photographers and artists from not only Macao, but also from other regions of the People's Republic of China and Portugal, this exhibition illustrates the vitality of the photographic practice of its participants.

On the other hand, this exhibition also illustrates the diversity of the various aesthetic and thematic approaches that photographic practice allows – documentary, “street photography”, landscape, human, studio, conceptual, among others – highlighting its decisive role in contemporary artistic and visual practice, namely in the Macao SAR.

As in the previous year, we thank the Rui Cunha Foundation for the reception given to this exhibition, which greatly honors HALFTONE and its participating associates.

Rui Cunha Foundation, Macau, 3 to 14 December 2024

André Ritchie - Cecília Ho - José das Neves - André Carvalhosa - David Lopo - José Sales Marques - António Mil-Homens - Elói Scarva - Nelson Silva - António Sotero - Francisco Ricarte - Nuno Calçada Bastos - António Bessa Almeida - Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro - Nuno Veloso - Cássia Schutt - Joana Freitas - Sara Augusto - Catarina Cortesão Terra - João Miguel Barros - Stefan Nunes - Carmen Serejo - João Palla - Wu Haozheng

Halftone – “Small Format Exhibition’24”

H2H Gallery, Ká Hó Village, Coloane, Macau, 2024

Halftone (Macao Photographic Association) presents the “Small Format Exhibition” at H2H Gallery in Ka-Ho, showcasing the photographic works of eleven of its members. While the available gallery space may be limited, this exhibition proves that impactful art can thrive even in compact formats.

Each photograph on display has been carefully crafted to maximize the artistic impact within the confines of the small wall dimensions. Through this exhibition, Halftone aims not only to celebrate the creative spirit of its photographers, but also to support the important work of the ARTM Association, to whom a portion of the proceeds will be donated.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the visual delights of the 'Small Format Exhibition' and discover the power of compact, thoughtful photography. Join us in appreciating the artistic brilliance of Halftone's members such as Elói Scarva, Francisco Ricarte, Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro, Joana Freitas, João Palla, José Sales Marques, Lurdes de Sousa, Nelson Silva, Ricardo Meireles, Rusty Fox and Sara Augusto, while contributing to a meaningful philanthropic cause.

“A PRESENÇA DA MATRIZ PORTUGUESA EM MACAU, NAS IMAGENS ENTRE TEMPOS”

Galeria da Residência Consular de Portugal em Macau, Ed. Bela Vista, Junho 2024

Esta exposição coletiva de fotografia é uma iniciativa da responsabilidade da Halftone - Macau Photographic Association, sob patrocínio do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros de Portugal – Direção-Geral dos Assuntos Consulares e das Comunidades Portuguesas. Os projetos visuais desenvolvidos e apresentados por doze fotógrafos residentes sobretudo na Região Administrativa Especial de Macau, visam aprofundar o conhecimento do contributo secular da Matriz Portuguesa neste Território, manifesto nos seus diversos meios de expressão cultural e patrimonial.

Sob o prisma do olhar da fotografia enquanto prática de arquivo diacrítico, subordinado ao tema da memória e identidade, faz sentido olhar a cidade hoje e refletir sobre os seus traços identitários de Matriz Portuguesa? Quais os marcos históricos e patrimoniais, os registos culturais e persistências humanas nela existentes? Como têm as diversas Comunidades – chinesa, portuguesa, macaense e outras - olhado para a presença do "outro" neste Território em constante transição e transformação? Como são essas marcas, físicas ou imagéticas, entendidas por outras Comunidades? São essas marcas também parte integrante da sua memória coletiva e individual, ou apresentam-se como extemporâneas?

Macau é, historicamente, um território em transição. Na sua cartografia constrói lugares novos, desdobra-se, aprofunda, concentra novas camadas de memórias coletivas no mapa da cidade. Estas “imagens entre tempos” revelam-se na afirmação da identidade do exercício da memória individual de cada um de nós - afinal também memória coletiva, através do que vivenciamos ou experienciamos ou, de forma subjetiva, através do exercício da "pós-memória": as memórias e registos visuais que outros nos convocam.

Macau, o dragão aparentemente tranquilo, mas sempre acordado.

Macau, um lugar de imagens

O fotógrafo ao observar, aproxima-se ou recua, pára, regista o instante, o singular ponto de vista, um fragmento, marca a emoção, o detalhe de um objecto que não se suspeita, transforma a narrativa, dá um sentido, as margens do rio são o fio condutor de vida da cidade. Entre a Arte e a Vida, não estamos perante um enigma em qualquer uma das suas formas. A criação de novas imagens ou do ainda não criado, não é um desejo de esperança de viver um futuro?

A cidade no espaço imaterial. Entre o real e a realidade construída, a justaposição de percursos não permite a leitura neutra. Ao invés, a reinvenção de um destino, o olhar da câmara revela a cidade, uma unidade estética singular, diferentes narrativas invisíveis emergem à superfície da realidade, desarticulam padrões de comportamento, as imagens entre tempos configuram-se assimétricas, suscitando o paradigma que Macau habita, uma cultura de refúgio que permanece suspensa numa paisagem em constante mutação.

André Ritchie - António Mil-Homens -António Bessa Almeida - António Sotero - Catarina Cortesão - Cecília Ho - David Lopo - Elói Scarva - Francisco Ricarte - Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro - Hugo Teixeira - Joana Freitas - João Daniel - João Miguel Barros - João Palla - João Rato - João Ribeirinha - José das Neves - José Sales Marques - Lurdes de Sousa - Maria José Freitas - Mide Plácido - Nelson Silva - Nuno Veloso - Pascal Pun - Ricardo Meireles - Rusty Fox - Sara Augusto - Sara Marçal - Stefan Nunes

Exhibition held in Rui Cunha Foundation, Macau, 4th to 9th December 2023

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION OF HALFTONE MEMBERS - “THE MIXED”

“Art On Space” Gallery, Foshan, P.R. of China, 2023

Invited Halftone members:

Alexandre Marreiros
Alan Ieon
Elói Scarva
Francisco Ricarte
Hugo Teixeira
Tang Kuok Hou
Rusty Fox
Sara Augusto
Stefan Nunes

Curators: João Miguel Barros and iiOn Ho

EPM

Escola Portuguesa de Macau

During the year 2021/2022 Halftone did photography classes for the students between 6 and 9 years old.

Halftone

Bsides photo

By Joao M. Rato

NEW PHOTO ZINE IN MACAU

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NEW PHOTO ZINE IN MACAU /

FRANCISCO RICARTE

Halftone Founder & Member of the Board has the honour of cordially inviting you to the opening ceremony of his latest Solo Photographic Exhibition

14th May, 5:30pm at Orient Foundation

ASIA . FAR

14.05.2022 - 19.06.2022

Praca Luis Camoes, n13, Macau 10:00 - 19:00 / Closed on Mondays

HALFTONE #02

April 30th, 5pm at Portuguese Bookstore

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April 30th, 5pm at Portuguese Bookstore /

**Halftone #02**

**Online not available...**
If you want to purchase this number please go to the Portuguese Bookshop in Macau or for international purchase please contact us.
Price: 100mop

Where are we heading to?

The title is bold, it could be the headline of a scientific journal for a new cosmos discovery or a theory of human evolution. This interrogation is not metaphorical anymore as we can replace its significance with concrete means: to the real. And to the unknown.

Determining the location and timing for displacement or retention of the population by means of war, crisis, climate, and viruses is at stake.

The paradox of our time is that of the asynchrony with our own time; from sedentary to nomadism, from identity to recreation of itself, from inclusion to vulnerability, from new riches to new refugees. We may well have missed the time when Walter Benjamin envisioned Photography as a way to see a world marked by the predominance of devices in which man has organized himself accordingly. And so we have, for his contentment. And here we are, entangled in the ever-increasing mutual dependency between ourselves and things, in an era of the worldwide web, where the hyper-image-conscious plays a weighty role. And Photography adapted. And people too, their visions and questions.

The magazine you have in hands, issue #02 of Halftone Photo Magazine, gives us syncopated signals at large of a suspended time and space — in suspense — of territories in transition where spaces are made of stages. The rails are there waiting for people to run on them. Photographers here are seeking new paths of reality, departing from the unknown. There is light in shadow, it ́s an outer shadow called the penumbra, not completely eclipsed.

Who would like to perform in a wrecked space, once a stage and once a building for well-dressed people? Why travelling is made of instances that will never happen again, like Photography, like life? What can a man do in a bolted dispute but stroll around the city? How can one take the most from a room with a view?

Time, space and light still seem to be the essence, but differently. Perhaps, the initial question is more ontological, to which our photographers shed penumbra. The cover photo may well be worthy of the original question, whereas the inside content would be left for readers to decipher by themselves.

The Editorial Team

We would like to invite you for the First Photobook Macau

With António Leong

30th April, 5pm

Portuguese Bookshop

“Dark Matter” at Macau Art Garden

The Portuguese architect and photographer Francisco Ricarte presents, on the 17th of March, Thursday, at 6:30 pm, at the Art Garden of the Art For All Society (AFA), his latest project entitled “Dark Matter”. This is a series composed of 12 colour and black and white photographs, in vertical and horizontal formats, measuring 90cm x 60cm.

Francisco Ricarte captured the images in early 2021 in Coloane, close to the sea and nature. Revealing to a certain extent, the photos, through a specific visual code, "seek to 'hide' more than they show 'see'".

Curated by local artist Alice Kok, the exhibition is the first part of the AFA’s annual project entitled “As Within, So Without – The Art of Imagery Exhibition Series”. “The global pandemic situation plunged the artist into a deep reflection on his own environment and, perhaps more importantly, on the possibilities of the unknowable. The whole series of photographs was taken in broad daylight in Coloane along the seafront of Macau with a deliberate decrease in the exposure level, thus creating a mysterious atmosphere of darkness under the sun”, writes the curator in her manifesto.

Alice Kok, also confesses an admirer of the work “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, highlights her famous phrase “the essential is invisible to the eyes”. “'Dark Matter' refers to a component of the universe whose presence is discerned by its gravitational pull rather than its luminosity. Dark matter makes up 30.1% of the matter-energy composition of the universe; the rest is dark energy (69.4%) and “ordinary” visible matter (0.5%)”, added the artist.

Before becoming a professional architect, Francisco Ricarte had been dedicated to photography since he was 21, in the 1970s, when he was offered his first reflex camera. Since then, he has been using the medium of communication as an expression of his own view of the environment around him. In 2006, he moved to Macau and worked as an architectural project manager until today. In recent years, Ricarte has participated in several group exhibitions where he presented his photographic works based mainly on landscape and architecture. The 66-year-old and year of retirement, the author, who is a founding member and vice president of the local photography association Halftone – reveals his latest work.

The exhibition is open until April 11 and can be viewed on Monday and Saturday, from 11 am to 7 pm.

Text: G.L.P.