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| An exuberant portrait of former First Lady Barbara Bush |
Photographer Annie Leibovitz has an intimate exhibition on in Hong Kong until next Sunday called
Women: New Portraits. She specifically chose a location that was hardly a comfortable gallery or centralized spot.
But for me it was convenient because it was in my neighbourhood, in an industrial building in Kennedy Town.
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| Photographs were exhibited side by side with no captions! |
We had to register our names first before going up an old school elevator where you had to manually close the doors before it would move.
On the third floor of the building was an empty shell of something, a large area hollowed out, gritty and a bit stuffy. On the far end of the room were her portraits that seemed scattered in a random order.
Near the middle of the room were three screens set up in a semi circle, and chairs forming the other half of the circle for people to sit and watch an on-going slide show of Leibovitz's numerous photographs of women over the decades.
There were photographs of Meryl Street, the late Zaha Hadid, several of Hillary Clinton several years ago, former First Lady Barbara Bush, Malala Yousafzai, and a string of supermodels from the 1980s, like Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, Amber Valletta and of course Naomi Campbell.
The pictures on the far wall were not large format photographs and they were placed close to each other, so visitors were all crowded trying to look at the pictures. The captions were not placed next to the pictures, so you had to keep looking at the program to find out who each person was.
