《2011-2014-2017 The once dusty land – Images of Hengqin》
Located adjacent to Macau to its east, Hengqin Island is the largest of Zhuhai's 146 islands, with an area three times that of Macau. In 2009, the State Council of the People's Republic of China implemented the Hengqin Overall Development Plan. This initiative launched large-scale construction projects aimed at developing Hengqin into a demonstration zone for exploring new models of cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau under the "One Country, Two Systems" framework.
Following this development, from 2011 to 2017, Mr. Frank Lei —Artistic Director of the Ox Warehouse and a veteran Macanese photographic artist—initiated a series of Hengqin-themed image exhibitions held once every three years. He consecutively organized: The Disappearing Neighboring Village: Hengqin Island Rediscovered Photography Exhibition (2011), At the Foot of Naobei Mountain: Today's Hengqin Image Creation Exhibition (2014), Three Years After Three Years: Photography Exhibition on the Changes of Hengqin (2017).
Through these projects, he led a group of Macau visual creators to continuously monitor and document the evolving landscape of Hengqin.
The book compiles the works from these three exhibitions. It chronicles the dramatic transformations in both the social landscape and human life during seven years of rapid development on Hengqin Island.
Written by editor Pal LOK Chok in 2017
《背山揚塵–橫琴影像集 2011-2014-2017》
橫琴島，東鄰澳門，是珠海市146個海島中最大的島嶼，其面積是澳門的三倍。中國國務院在2009年落實《橫琴總體發展規劃》，計劃大興土木，把橫琴建設成在「一國兩制」下探索粵港澳合作新模式的示範區。
繼此，牛房倉庫藝術總監及澳門資深攝影藝術家李銳奮先生在2011至2017年，逢三年一次發起橫琴主題影像展，先後舉辦2011年《消失中的鄰村–橫琴島再發現攝影展》、2014年《腦背山下–今日橫琴影像創作展》及2017年《三年又三年–關於橫琴變化攝影展》，帶領着一眾澳門的影像創作人持續關心及記錄橫琴的變化。《背山揚塵–橫琴影像集2011-2014-2017》收錄了這三次橫琴影像創作展的作品，記錄横琴在這七年的急速發展間，社會面貌及人文生活的巨大變遷。
編者 陸竹 撰於2017年
A publication of Ox Warehouse 牛房倉庫出版
ISBN 978-99965-864-9-1
