鄭子峰（b.1994, 香港）先後畢業於香港浸會大學傳理學院，及香港中文大學藝術系。他從事新聞攝影工作逾八年，且屢獲肯定，於2021年榮獲台灣新聞攝影大賽年度最佳新聞照片，並於2023至2025年間擔任香港攝影記者協會主席。
紀實以外，他現階段的創作涵蓋錄像、行為、聲音和裝置，主要憑藉其攝影工作之經驗和觀察，探求影像如何擺脫衪所捕捉的對像，繼而成為「它者」。在此，影像並非再現的結果，而是「連接或切離可見與其意指、話語與其效應的各種操作。」
鄭氏試圖擺脫過往工作的習慣，一再將自己的身體成為其表現的中介，以「行動者」和「見證者」的遊離姿態重新經驗眼前的社會現實；並將作品呈現之空間納入其重要考量。他的系列作品《無名者的紀念碑》（2021）、《成為風景》（2022）及《苦痛無譏》（2023）便是以此為基礎，追索微弱的記憶和傷痛有否通過影像再現的可能。
鄭氏於2022年於Para Site進行駐留，以微距攝影介入塵封的印刷物。2023年，他獲選為聲音掏腰包「藝術家支援計劃」2022 – 23（特別策劃）之藝術家，並於同年參與香港國際攝影節衛星展覽計劃，完成其首次個展《太平》。
Upon completing his studies in the Department of Journalism of Hong Kong Baptist University and the Department of Fine Arts of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jeff Cheng Tsz Fung (b.1994, Hong Kong) has been widely recognised for his work throughout eight years in photojournalism including the award of Picture of the Year at Taiwan Press Photo Contest 2021. He is also acting as the Chairperson of Hong Kong Press Photographers Association for a two-year term from 2023 to 2025.
In addition to documentary photography, he began a creative voyage in various media, from video and performance to sound and installation. The synthesis of experience and close observation during his formative years in photography has lent the artist an intuition to further explore the notion of “Others” by alienating images from the subjects that they capture. Hence, images are no longer substantive products of re-enactment. Rather, images connect or disconnect an “appearance” from its connotations, discourses and reverberations.
Cheng breaks free from his accustomed routine and borrows his own body to perform an act. His oscillation between “acting” and “spectatorship”, as well as spatiality of a work altogether constructed a manner to navigate the social reality. It laid the foundation for his series “Anonymous monument” (2021), “To become the landscape” (2022) and “The pain is far from enough” (2023) which maneuver the possibility of faint memory and trauma reappearing via images.
During his artist residency with Para Site in 2022, he attempted with intervention into dust-laden publications by means of micro photography. Later, he was selected for soundpocket’s Artist Support Programme 2022-2023 (Special Edition). His debut solo “With all Flatness” was featured in the Satellite Exhibitions of Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2023.
E-mail: jeffchengtszfung@gmail.com
Exhibitions and Programmes:
'With All Flatness' - Satellite Exhibition of Hong Kong International Photo Festival (HKIPF), 2023
'Giving Meaninglessness' supported by Osage Art Foundation, 2023
soundpocket’s Artist Support Programme (Special Edition), 2023
Hong Kong New Music Ensemble - Sonic-Visual Interplay: CoLab artists, 2023
'Citrus Worlds' by Asia Society Hong Kong Center in Art Central, 2023
'Moment by Moment’ , Master of Arts in Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition, 2022
Para Site - Studio + Archive Project, 2022
'Volume of silence', Wure Area, 2021
Affordable Art Fair by Art Together, 2021
Awards:
Osage Art Award - Best in MA Show 2022
Chu's Academic Achievement Award 2022
WMA Photography Award for Graduates (Moving Image) 2022
The Cactus Prize 2022
Taiwan Press Photo Contest 2021 - Photo of the year/ First prize in General News category
Focus on the Frontline 2020 photo competition - Third place in General News category
Annual Photography Awards 2020 - Honorable Mention in Photojournalism
Taiwan Press Photo Contest 2020 - Third place in Photo Essay category
PX3 2020 - Honorable Mention in Press/General News - Professional category
Neutral Density Photography Awards 2020 - Third place and Honorable Mention in Editorial: General News category Chromatic Awards 2020 - First prize in Photojournalism - Professional category
One Eyeland Awards 2019 - Bronze award in Editorial category
Focus on the Frontline 2018 photo competition - Honorable Mention in Sports category