Some photos from people working in Hong Kong Security guard Langham place, a major mall in Mong Kok. One of his jobs is to make sure people do not sit in this hallway. There are few other places to sit in the mall without paying for them. A colourful sanitation worker Pork legs on one... Continue Reading →
Red birdcages somewhere near Kwun Tong Taxi's in the rain seen from my window The beautiful Star Ferry A rainy day in San Po Kong Drying or dumping vegetables near Kowloon City Consumed Offerings Large graffiti-advertising in San Po Kong Doing the laundry Broken airconditioning behind bamboo scaffolding in Kwun Tong
A selection of objects and things I found noteworthy. Provided without context 我哋真係好撚鍾意香港
Scenes of people working in public
Photos taken while waiting for a friend
Propaganda and Ideology only works if it total in character, not just big ideology in the speeches and grand gestures but it has to be there in the everyday, the things we don’t think about, the assumptions that are made for us which we accept without thinking. It is the small propaganda, the small ideology which seeps inside us without our noticing while we laugh at military parades and banners and think, “who can ever fall for such a thing”.
I love signs. They tell us about the history and character of a place. A sign tells us how something wants to be represented. In Hong Kong, signs are everywhere. Written on buildings; jutting out on rusty poles; printed; handwritten; Glowing in neon, or not at all; marking its colonial legacy, or moving forward. What... Continue Reading →
Hong Kong is much more than the malls and the luxury goods extravaganza that you will most likely see as a tourist. Below is a small selection of different shops during the evening. Vegetables, dried goods, Property, you can buy it all in the short hours after work where people can be people again. Kowloon... Continue Reading →
Photos of people going somewhere
Curved and straight lines in Hong Kong
Not Just About Culture 