《鬼馬香港》- 傳俊偉

感謝主，賜我一對善於觀察的眼睛。

初學攝影，我以為只需熟練雙手，就可舉機拍攝；
成為攝影記者後，才知還得要敏捷的雙腿，才能拍攝到具時事性的新聞圖片，
自此我不斷努力，為香港記錄每個重要時刻。

回歸之後，香港的打擊一浪接一浪：金融風暴、禽流感禍害、沙士肆虐、經濟衰退，香港人變得愈來愈不快樂。
我在記錄這些動盪時刻的同時，發現了許多大家忽略了的情景，一些令人會心微笑的片段。

當大家在銀行櫃員機提款時，可有留意它如何運作？

有一天，我路經銀行櫃員機，赫然發現一隻手從屏幕後伸出來，原來櫃員機也要靠牆後的銀行職員修理的。
要拍攝這些照片，當然要靠觀察力，但這種觀察力，其實不是我獨有。

可記得幼時跟父母上街，對每一事物都瞪大雙眼研究嗎？
又或者去旅行，連人家的指示牌都佇足細看。

香港人愈來愈忙，忙得無暇停下來觀察身邊的事物；
又或者香港人太憂愁，從前光是在櫥窗外看玩具都覺得開心，現在大家已忘了這種歡樂來源。

我終於明白，要發掘身邊動人的時刻，除了手腳並用之外，也需要用心。
當你心情和態度樂觀，即使周圍愁雲慘霧，亦會發現歡樂好笑的情景，就像普通人走過一棵樹，
不會留意樹上的鳥鳴，只有閒情觀鳥的人，才能見到周圍都是雀鳥。

當然，要撥開雲霧見青天，我們需要很多耐性，像拍攝那幀櫃員機的照片，我便守候了一星期。

我希望透過攝影，為香港記錄這些生活上易被忽略的有趣情景，為大家重拾久違了的歡樂。
香港人快點見青天，大家共勉！

傅俊偉

EPILOGUE
 
Blessed I am for having a pair of observing eyes.

When I just started photo-taking, I thought what matters the most is being skillful in handling the camera.
After becoming a photojournalist, it comes to me that one needs to be swift in order to capture the momentous photos.
From then onwards, I strive my very best at all moment in order to document every significant moment of Hong Kong.

After the Handover, Hong Kong experienced waves of adversities.
There were the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the outbreak of Avian Flu and SARS, continuous economic recession......
The mood of Hongkonger sank with these events. While I was recording these upheavals,
there were also delightful moments worth notifying yet being ignored.

Have you ever noticed the mechanism of an ATM while you withdrawing money from it?

One day when I walked passed an ATM, a scene I have never imagined stroked me: there was a hand reaching out from the screen of the machine.
Only by then I realized these ATM need maintenance. The ability to observe is essential to take these photographs;
however this is a common ability possessed by both you and me.

Can you recall the time when you were still a child, where everything surrounding you triggers your curiosity?

Do you still remember, when you travel, you will be amused by the road sign there for no particular reason?

Hongkonger are getting busier, so busy that we turn a blind eye to our surrounding.
Or else we worry too much, so much so that we forget that pleasure could be found in minute things such as window-shopping at a toyshop.
This kind of happiness is now being concealed and forgotten.

It comes to my realization that touching moment needs ones' initiative to participate and a grateful heart to appreciate.
With sunshine in your heart, you will see smiling faces in gloomy days.
Only people at leisure could hear birds' singing; busy people would be blindfolded by the bustling life.

Undoubtedly we need a lot of patience to spot out the funniest moment during cloudy air;
just as I have spent a whole week waiting for the moment when the supporting staff of the bank to repair the ATM.

It is my aim to bring joy to my fellow Hongkonger the lively moments which are easily ignored through my photography.
Heads up Hongkonger, the day is now!

Fu Chun Wai

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