Everything for sale in Aberdeen | Hong Kong 2011
As far as street shooting goes, Hong Kong presents itself as an excellent candidate. With over 7 million people crammed into a tiny space, it is one of the most densely populated cities on Earth, and at all times of the day and night, there are people out and about, and due to the lack of space, much of private life is also somewhat ‘public’, lives are lived out in the streets. There are photo opportunities around every corner and real life dramas playing out all around.
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Wing Shya | Hong Kong Photographer, Director
One of my favourite photographers is Hong Kong based Wing Shya. Long time collaborator with auteur director Wong Kar Wai, Wing Shya is equally comfortable in fashion, film and art and his photographs often look like stills out of a movie.
I met Wing Shya at a talk he held at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art many years ago, and the impression he left was deep, his ethereal images are distinctive and seem to always to be a part of a larger narrative, invoking the viewer to imagine what happened before, and after the frame imortalised. His bold colour palatte and grainy pictures are very urban and visceral, of disenfranchised youth and jilted lovers contemplating their loss. I remember Shya saying that he likes working with expired film, as the results are unpredictable and organic, words which definitely describes his work well.
Wing Shya runs Shya-la-la Workshop in Hong Kong and apart from his photography, has also directed music videos and the film ‘Hot Summer Days’.
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Passing Hollywood Road | Hong Kong 2009
Connecting Des Voeux Road with Conduit Road in the Mid-levels, the Mid-levels escalator is a metaphor for the rise in social status, with property prices climbing with the escalator in the expat enclave.
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‘Ding Ding’ Tram by Night | Hong Kong 2008
Originally laid over a 100 years ago, the tram tracks are not unlike an ancient artery in the heart of Hong Kong, snaking from Kennedy Town in the west to Shau Kei Wan in the east. The trams with their distinctive ‘ding ding’ bells warning pedestrians of their impending approach are a cheap and picturesque mode of transport within the city.
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Anonymity of the City | Hong Kong 2011
The sun has long since set, its warmth replaced by the cool of nightfall, in place of its radiance, a million lights burning away, gaudy neon flickering in unison. The city glows.
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Life in the Slow Lane | Hong Kong
This fabulous video by Euan Preston shows what can be accomplished by a missed flight and a free afternoon in Hong Kong. A view of Hong Kong in the slow (and fast) lane.
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Going Slow | Hong Kong 2008
“Slow” is a word seldom used to describe Hong Kong, a frenetic real life Bladerunner-esque metropolis, whose denizens throng the streets night and day. Perhaps the government intended the humble traffic warning as a double entendre to the citizens to “slow down” their lives as well.
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