*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.
Before his time
*Before his time*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX25
If you like bokeh as I do, shooting slow film seems like a no brainer. On a bright, sunny day, I walked around the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris to find subjects that would work well at shallow apertures. This is probably my favourite shot from that roll, it’s gentle and melancholy.
Trickle
*Trickle*
GW690iii + Rollei RPX 25
One of the best things about Hong Kong is how close it is from the city to the jungle. You can litterally be in the middle of nowhere (or seemingly so) withing minutes of leaving one of the largest metropoli in Asia. A few weeks ago me and my friend Matthew went up Braemar Hill via the river with tripods and RPX 25. I did some slow shutter photos
You’ll be a man, my son
*You’ll be a man, my son*
Fuji TX2 + Rollei RPX25
Since schools closed in HK in late January, my 16 year old son has stopped shaving. He didn’t seem to have much of a beard at first, but a few months on it turns out it’s quite bushy. I took this portrait in the sunset light on a tripod, because Rollei RPX25 isn’t exactly made for portraits… but I love the look of it. I will definitely try that film for portraits again, just possibly with artificial lights to make it easier.
Tombstones in the Grass
*Tombstones in the Grass*
Fuji TX2 + Rollei RPX25
I really like this picture although it shoes how delicate exposure can be. I measured the exposure on the tomb at the right of the frame, but I now wished I’d tried a version metered on the one on the far left. Might have been even moodier. Even so, I think there’s something nicely graphic about this haphazard collection of tombstones.
Twin Crosses
*Twin Crosses*
Fuji TX2 + Rollei RPX25
After a few visits, there are a few locations I have already identified as having graphic potential in the Hong Kong cemetery. These two crosses framing a tombstone behind them are amongst them. When I went last time in the morning, I was shooting expired Scala, and the contrast was sadly not there. This time I went late afternoon but the direction of the light nicely framed those crosses, I felt.
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