“BRUTAL” by Rusty Fox & Chong Hoi
“BRUTAL” by Rusty Fox & Chong Hoi
“Here we are presented with the city and its objects – with humans like robots and robots like humans – all evidencing our disastrous footprint. Our architecture and infrastructure appears weak and insubstantial – a stage-set that is no longer useful. Photographed largely at night, there is a sense of impending doom, of a world spinning out of control, a world of greed and inhumanity; a visual cry of pain from those furtive, dark-eyed inhabitants left to dissect, bottle and preserve animals in a dystopian nightmare. To exaggerate the point, there is an underlying harshness in the approach to this work, with framing and cropping and black shadows that cut aggressively into the subjects.
It is unusual that two photographers are able to work so closely, but Rusty Fox, his name predictive and descriptive of his approach, has found a close ally and collaborator with Chong Hoi. They work with one voice – angry and somehow deeply, darkly poetic, as somewhere a white balloon drifts towards the moon.”
– Julie Cook
Title: BRUTAL
Author and Published by: Chong Hoi & Rusty Fox
Graphic Design: Chong Hoi
Publish Date: June 2016
Edition: 1st Edition
Number of Copies: 300
pages: 288
Contact: rustyfoxphotography@gmail.com (Rusty Fox)
macbugman@gmail.com (Chong Hoi)
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“BRUTAL” attended exhibitions:
Paris Photos
Unseen Amsterdam
HK Photobook Fair
Taipei Art Book Fair
Nominated for MACK First Book Award
Collected by Oxford, Cambridge & Trinity University, and National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, UK