88 photos to celebrate Macau

António Mil-Homens still remembers very well the day he first ‘met’ Macau: February 2, 1996.  Suddenly, he fell in love with this territory. “Macau has something, kind of magnetic, that just stays sticked to our soul”, he stressed while speaking to the Macau Daily Times.
The year of 1996 was when he took his first photo of Macau.
The Portuguese photographer has transferred the same feelings to his work. And “Macao Forever” is the title of António Mil-Homens most recent photo exhibition. The opening ceremony and book launching will be held on Monday, at 3.30 pm, at the Venetian Macau, Hotel level 1, Entrance to the Plaza Macao.
A total of 88 photos – because of this number’s auspicious meaning to the Chinese culture – will be showcased until January 4. “All photos are images of the local daily life. Off course, we will look at these moments and situations through my point of view”, he said.
Thus, the exhibition and the book are an invitation to know the city seen through António Mil-Homens’s eyes.
“Simple, natural, fluid like the waters of the Pearl River delta, apparently murky for the Western observer. It’s another culture, another way of life and feeling”, he says in the exhibition book’s introduction.
The photograph captured the images between 1996 and 2006. Due to the 10 years time frame, “Macao Forever” is also celebrating the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Special Administrative Region. The opening ceremony is to be presided by Chief Executive, Edmund Ho.
The photos were already exhibited in Lisbon, in 2007. This time the exhibition held in Macau is jointly presented by DeFicção-Multimedia Projects, House of Portugal in Macau and Sands China Ltd.