Photobook:《圈境 Enclosed Landscape》
ISBN：978-99965-692-1-0
Book Size: W200mm x H225mm
Pages: 116 pages
ISBN: 978-99981-60-20-0
Publisher: brownie publishing ltd.
Copies: 150
Edition: 1st Edition, Jun 2023
Price: MOP 360/HKD 350
‘Enclosed Landscape’ is a project by Macau photographer Alan IEON on the city’s landscape. In the city of spectacle casinos and romanticized landscapes, IEON has focused his camera on the man-made temporary structures hidden beneath these grand spectacles – construction hoardings – in a typographic attempt to show readers a different Macau from the stereotypes seen on the internet.
As a photobook dedicated to these ‘unfinished’ construction structure, the book does not want to restrict the reader’s way of reading and imagination of the landscape, so it adopts the accordion pull-out pages in a roundabout format, allowing the book to be read either in a forward or backward manner, with the reader being able to turn the pages in different forms, such as a two-page set like a normal hardcover book; or the pages can be stretched out on the table in a four-page set to imitate the wavy shape of a hoarding. Alternatively, the whole pages can be pulled out to stand up with the cover, transforming the book into a hoarding-like installation. As the pages are placed side by side, they naturally form another continuous, impenetrable wall. And within this wall of paper, ‘Enclosed Landscape’ hopes to re-examine with the readers this ‘same landscape’ in various narrative structures, while challenging with the author the seemingly natural relationship between development, landscape and power.
《 圈境Enclosed Landscape 》為澳門攝影師Alan Ieon（楊俊榮）關於澳門地景的攝影計劃。在奇觀式的賭場與浪漫化風景林立的城市中，楊氏把鏡頭對準了埋藏在這些大型奇觀底下的人造臨時建築物──建築圍板，以類型學的形式，嘗試為讀者展示一個與網絡上看到刻板印象不同的澳門。
作為一本針對一種「未完成」建築物的攝影書，《圈境》並不希望限制讀者閱讀的方式以及對書中地景的想像，因此採用手風琴拉頁、以迴遊形式製作，使得全書無論是順讀或反讀均可成章，而讀者更可按不同形式，如像普通精裝書般以兩版一組的形式翻頁閱讀；又或是把書中拉頁模仿為圍板一般的波浪形狀，以四張一組的形式拉伸延展於枱面上；更甚者可嘗試把整條拉頁拉出連封面一同立起，使書本蛻變為一件如圍板般的裝置藝術品。當這些充滿圍板的頁面並排放置時，書頁自然形成另一堵連續、不可逾越的牆壁，《圈境》希望能夠在這面由白紙製作的牆壁上，與讀者一同重新審視這「相同的景觀」，並邀請各位能在不同的敘事結構下，與作者一同挑戰那種與發展、景觀與權力之間看似自然的關係。
除了獨特的結構外，本書亦邀請了香港視覺藝術家與策展人葉曉燕 (Rachel IP) 小姐與澳門攝影藝術家雨果・特謝拉 (Hugo Teixeira) 先生撰寫序言文章，分別以當代攝影及澳門社會的不同角度探討本書的景觀影像。
