Industrial Solitude: Night Topographics
I photograph Hong Kong's outlying industrial districts remapped by artificial light at night from a detached and objective position. Artificial light in these photographs is a new kind of landform — both functional and expressive of human-altered landscapes.
Inspired by New Topographics, the photography also delivers a subtle but important twist: individuals occasionally appear in some of the environments. They are not so much narrative figures as part of the industrial landscape, emphasizing the scale of structures and the aloneness of the individual.
Black and white photography serves to highlight the light and shadow play and graphic quality of the scenes and augment the inherent dispassion, isolation, and silence of the night.
