MEDIA FEATURES
2025
MP Weekly spoke with Ménos and La Galerie founder Cyril Delettre about the “The Weight of Silhouette” exhibition hosted at the gallery.
2025
The article introduces the book is not about grand spectacles but about quiet, forgotten details that define Hong Kong’s character. It positions Ménos as storytellers of urban memory, reminding viewers that cultural identity is found in small, everyday moments.
2024
The Weight of Silhouettes” BOOK REVIEW | Being HK
The book explores Hong Kong’s overlooked corners through eight photographers’ eyes. Moving from red to black&white to color, the work reflects on memory, time, and resilience — challenging the dominance of online ‘visual codes’ with carefully curated images.
2024
The Weight of Silhouettes” BOOK REVIEW | ART AND PIECE
Founded in 2018, Hong Kong collective MÉNOS unites diverse photographers to capture the city’s realities. Their debut Prologue: Hong Kong Street mixed members’ works into a unified vision, while the follow‑up The Weight of Silhouette (2021) adopted a conceptual approach.
2024
The Weight of Silhouette: Everyday Light as Metaphor, A Collective Response to the Times | Inmediahk
Hong Kong collective MÉNOS answers the pandemic years with The Weight of Silhouette, a photobook of 100 everyday images told through metaphor and abstraction. Blending documentary with lyricism, each member offers distinct perspectives on memory, emotion, and resilience — a collective response to 2020–2024.
2024
Capturing Hong Kong’s Vanishing Time Through Abstraction | The Collective HK
MÉNOS’s new photobook shifts from documentary to abstraction, narrating Hong Kong’s forgotten pandemic‑era time and stories. Despite the change in style, the focus remains on voices from different corners and social strata of the city.
2023
Recollection Hong Kong under “The Weight of Silhouettes” I Artazine
Artazine editor introduces the K11 MUSEA exhibition, which captures Hong Kong’s fleeting everyday moments through shadow and blur, exploring the emotional weight of memory, loss, and yearning in a city of constant change.
2019
From the Feelings in the Heart to the Kaleidoscope of the City | Horizon Magazine
The article profiles all members of MÉNOS, including founder Cheng Wai Hok. Reflecting on the collective’s origins, Cheng noted, ‘Many street photographers work in silos — why don’t we join hands and support each other?’ That simple idea sparked the creation of MÉNOS and its photography journal. As convenor, Cheng also provides his camera shop, Meteor HK, as a regular meeting place where members gather to collaborate and develop projects.
2019
Photography Zine Prologue — Documenting Hong Kong’s Forgotten People | Photogstory
PhotogStory, Hong Kong’s leading photography platform, describes Prologue as more than a publication — a cultural archive that preserves fragments of the city’s identity by spotlighting those often forgotten.
2019
Prologue — 11 Hong Kong Photographers Capture the City’s Bustling Life | HK01
Released by the Hong Kong street photography collective MÉNOS, Prologue: Hong Kong Street unites 11 local photographers to capture the city’s bustling everyday life. From crowded markets to aging districts, the photobook preserves fragments of Hong Kong’s identity by spotlighting overlooked communities and moments that define the city’s pulse.
2019
Capturing Hong Kong’s Streets, Revealing the Forgotten | MP WEEKLY
Prologue: Hong Kong Street, presented by the MÉNOS collective, showcases selected works by 9 photographers alongside vivid lightbox displays. The exhibition preserves fragments of the city’s identity, serving as a cultural archive of resilience.