01 / 09

Sham Shui Po Rooftop Huts

Fourteen huts built on top of one tenement block, each with its own water tank, aerial and washing line.

02 / 09

Victoria Harbour, Signal Three

Shot the morning the typhoon signal went up, when the ferries stopped and the water turned the colour of pewter.

03 / 09

Neon Over Nathan Road

What is left of the old signs throws a warm layer that sits about ten metres above the shopfronts.

04 / 09

Choi Hung Estate Courts

The painted blocks and the rooftop courts read as one flat colour chart from directly overhead.

05 / 09

Kwai Tsing Terminals Before Rain

Fifteen minutes ahead of the front, when the container stacks lose their shadows and become a grid.

06 / 09

The Long Shadow, Central 06:40

One tower lays a shadow across nine blocks for about eleven minutes each morning, then loses it.

07 / 09

Lion Rock Above the Cloud Layer

Thirty second exposure from the ridge, with the city underneath showing only as a glow in the cloud.

08 / 09

Storm Cell Over the Outer Islands

Shot on the way back in, forty kilometres out, where the sea still reads as one flat sheet.

09 / 09

Last Light on Tsing Ma Bridge

The bridge cables hold the light about four minutes longer than the water underneath them does.

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Victoria Harbour, Signal Three

Shot the morning the typhoon signal went up, when the ferries stopped and the water turned the colour of pewter.

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