*The Bamboo and the Bike*
Canon A2 + ECN2 250D
I love the bamboo scaffolding that you see nearly everywhere in Hong Kong but what caught my eye here was the projected shadow of the scaffolding and the bike breaking the regularity.
Phony Smile
*Phony Smile*
Rolleiflex 3.5 + Lomography Lomo 800
This unconvincing smile seemed particularly incongruous in the middle of a Mui Wo village…
Cast Shadow
*Cast Shadow*
Canon A2 + ECN2 250D
You’d be hard pressed to know that this was shot in Hong Kong, but the crisp shadow is the giveaway!
Closed for business
*Closed for business*
Canon A2 + ECN2 250D
Before leaving Hong-Kong I realised that there was a half shot roll in my Canon A2. I had no idea what the film was, so I just took it with me on my last hop to Mui Wo to see my friend Matthew. Turns out it was day rated ECN2 film and it worked really nicely in that lovely sunny day.
More Ladders
*More Ladders*
Canon EOS300 + Rollei RPX25
This series started with ladders and ends with ladders. I would not have thought when I first moved to Hong Kong that ladders would end up being a fixture of my photography there, but they sure did!
Tai Hang Café
*Tai Hang Café*
Canon EOS300 + Rollei RPX25
Tai Hang is one of the most endearing areas in Hong Kong island, at the same time old and gentrifying. Car repair shops sit next to quaint (or trendy) coffee places. This is (obviously) the latter. I love the lattice on the coffee shop doors.
Mao is back
*Mao is back*
Canon EOS300 + Rollei RPX25
On my first week in Shanghai in 2014 a friend took me to Dongtai Lu, a (now defunct) flea market, where I shot a very similar photo as this one, albeit in colour and in panoramic. Ironically, I stumbled upon this collection of communist figures during my last week in HK, in the Upper Lascar Row flea market. It’s a bit like my 8 years in Asia bookended by Chinese communism…
Car seat repairman
*Car seat repairman*
Canon EOS300 + Rollei RPX25
I was so happy with this shot. See, I noticed this guy the first week I was in Hong Kong back in 2016, and I tried to take a shot of him multiple times over the years, but never managed to get it right: the lighting was off, he wasn’t looking in the right direction, he was looking at me, etc. Getting this shot on my last week in Hong Kong was something special.
A Ladder
*A Ladder*
Canon EOS300 + Rollei RPX25
This is one of the last rolls I shot in Hong-Kong. For about a year now, I have shot mostly very slow films for street, forcing me into shallow depths of field and different subjects. Rogue ladders are so Hong-Kong, you’ll like see some more.
Cyclist in a bottle
*Cyclist in a bottle*
Canon EOS300 + Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400
(As I leave Hong Kong this week I wanted to share an experiment, inspired by the wonderful series by Chris Relander entitled Bottled. These are film double exposures of scenes of Hong Kong that will always for me evoke the city I loved and am now leaving. This is my first ever attempt at the technique, and it needs perfecting, but I hope you will see them as the work in progress that it is).
I remember my first few weeks in Hong Kong. I was convalescing from a major operation, and tried to walk around everyday as much as I could to get better faster. The Shelter St. tram stop was our local one, and that day I didn’t have a camera with me. I saw this cyclist in front of a tram on the tram line and wished I’d had a zoom lens to shoot it with. On my last week, I saw nearly the same scene at the nearby Victoria Park tram stop, and captured it in a bottle. A circle complete…
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