Cecily Lai, born in 1984, graduated from Nottingham Trent University and participated in an Erasmus Exchange Program in Prague. Czech Republic 2005/6. Originally from Hong Kong, she has travelled extensively from a young age. Her work primarily deals with the documentation of people through which she explores in the confusion of beauty.

She shoots both on Large and Medium format film as well as with a digital back. Cecily’s

Work has been exhibited in Free Range, around the country and in Prague. Including publishing in Creative Review.

‘Made in China’

 A project about the country where I was born. Hong Kong is a city that is constantly transforming, a city that seems like a tangled web of contradictions in a chaotic realm of diversity. Bursting at the seams, Hong Kong is now seeing an influx of ‘mainlanders’ drawn towards better welfare provisions and a better ‘quality of life’: the ever marketable commodity. And China is spreading globally, with slow whispers of lessons in Mandarin echoing round the corridors of the world’s business centres.  Hong Kong remains at the pivotal point where East meets West, but China is now clamouring for such attention.

• 1 1 Cecily Lai
• 2 2 Cecily Lai
• 4 4 Cecily Lai
• 3 3 Cecily Lai
• 6 6 Cecily Lai
• 5 5 Cecily Lai
• 7 7 Cecily Lai
• 8 8 Cecily Lai
• 9 9 Cecily Lai
• 10 10 Cecily Lai
• 11 11 Cecily Lai
• 12 12 Cecily Lai