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In the center of the photograph, the Victoria Harbor glistens under the sun. Star Ferries pass by. Skyscrapers across the harbor cover the mountains. An overhang on Queen’s Pier casts a shadow on six spectators, creating a silhouette of their bodies. Relatively in their old age, they rest on a metal rail along the edge of the pier. After few decades, most of the old structures in Hong Kong are to be demolished along with so much of its historical value. I feel a sense of nostalgia as they look out onto the harbor one last time.

I found this photograph about a year after it was taken and I was able to feel the exact same feeling as those I felt behind the camera. At that moment, I realized the power of a photograph; how it can capture emotions, capture time. I began looking at several photography books of old Hong Kong, and saw many other photographers were able to document the water shortage of 1963, Shek Kip Mei Public Estate fire in 1953, and most beautifully, a Hong Kong without skyscrapers. Inspired with by Henri Cartier Bresson’s quote “We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory”. I too wanted to document history so that those in the future could see today’s world.

Photography is the only way I can express my inner thoughts. The camera acts as my third eye, a mechanical eye that is intuitive and impulsive. Photography is the way I shout.


“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory”- Henri Cartier Bresson

If you want to change your photographs, you need to change cameras. Changing cameras means that your photographs will change. A really good camera has something I suppose you might describe as its own distinctive aura.
-- Nobuyoshi Araki

I don’t think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day
-- William Eggleston

Inspirations- Henri Cartier Bresson, Helen Levitt, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Garry Winogrand, Robert Frank, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Daido Moriyama, Jun Abe

Cameras | Lenses

-Agfa-

Agfa Isolette III 1950 -75 f/3.5 solinar

-Argus-

Argus Matchmatic C3 – 1958

-Zeiss Contaflex-

Zeiss Contaflex Super BC 1965
Carl Zeiss 50 f/2.8 Tessar for Contaflex BC
Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super B 1963
Carl Zeiss 50 f/2.8 Tessar for Contaflex B

-Linhof-

Linhof Technika III
Linhof Schneider 150 5.6 Symmar
Schneider 210 5.6 Symmar-S

-Leica-

Leica M3 - 1955
Leica M2 - 1959
Leica M2- 1960
Leitz M 50 f/1.4 Summilux v2 Anodized Black
Leitz M 35 f/2.8 Summaron -1960


-Minolta-

Minolta CLE- 1980
Minolta 28 f2.8 Multi-Coated Rokkor

-Rollei-

Rolleiflex 2.8C Schneider Xenotar - 1952
Rollei 35S Sonnar 40 2.8 - Singapore – 1971

-Voightlander-

Voightlander Vito CSR- 1967

-Miranda-

Miranda Camera EE + 50 1.4

-Nikon-

Nikon F2A – 1972
Nikon F3 - 1980
Nikon Nikomat FT - 1967
Nikon FM2n - 1983
Nikon F65
Nikkor SC Auto 55 f/1.2
Nikkor AIS 50 f/1.4
Nikon AIS 50 f/2.0
nikkor AIS 35 f/2.8
Nikon 28-80 3.5-5.6
Tokina 80-200 f/4.5
Nikon SB-17 speedlite

-Canon-

Canon F-1 (1st Generation) - 1972
Canon FDn 85 1.2L
Canon 20D -2005
Canon 400D -2006
Canon 40D -2008
Canon EF 28-80 2.8-4L
Canon 580EX II speedlite

-Panasonic-

Panasonic LX3 – 2008

-Polariod-

Polaroid spectra system MB
Polaroid ProCam