Dry the clothes have initially been the most common thing in daily life. Walk around Hong Kong’s public housing blocks and old tenement buildings today, and it quickly becomes clear that many residents still hang their clothes outside to dry. Now, as housing prices grow ever more expensive per square...
PhotoBiography: Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf (born 1954 in Munich) is a German artist and photographer who lives and works in Hong Kong and Paris. His work focuses on daily life in big cities. Wolf won first prize in the Contemporary Issues category of the 2004 World Press Photo competition for his photographs of...
PhotoBiography: Greg Girard
Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer who has spent much of his career in Asia. His work examines the social and physical transformations taking place throughout the region. He is represented by Monte Clark Gallery (Vancouver/Toronto) and also works on assignment for publications such as National Geographic Magazine. In 2012...
Zhou Han Shun: Frenetic City
About his Hong Kong project entitled "Frenetic City" Chinese photographer Zhou Han Shun says: Frenetic City is an exploration of this complicated and multi-layered world. This work focuses on how people from different walks of life come to live together in a particular place. The congregation of people creates a multi-layered society which...
Peter Stewart: Extraordinary Architecture of Hong Kong
Australian photographer Peter Stewart (currently based Hong Kong) found great photographic perspective to show density of population in Hong Kong agglomeration. Says Peter: I lust for capturing bustling cityscapes and dynamic landscapes wherever my passport will take me, but I also have a growing passion for street portraiture and documentary photography of the...
Greer Muldowney: Hong Kong
Greer Muldowney is an artist, photography professor and independent curator based in Boston, Massachusetts. She received an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Studio Art from Clark University, and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has acted as the Curator for the Desotorow Gallery in...
Ward Roberts: Billions – Multiple Exposures of Hong Kong Architecture
Ward Roberts is a conceptual artist who creates exquisitely composed photographs drawing on themes such as loneliness and isolation in the modern world. The artist’s perspective is fresh and engaging, the sophisticated aesthetic are often contradicted by subtle unscripted moments. A soft drenched colour pallet is a common theme. There...
Vintage color: City Life of Hong Kong in 1976
Collection of rare Kodachrome slides taken by an unknown US Navy Commander in Hong Kong in 1976. via m20wc51