The Hong Kong Series brings together photographs from two visits—first in 2002 using color slide film, and later in 2015 with my trusted Fuji X100—capturing the city’s intensity, density, and ever-evolving urban character. The earlier images document a Hong Kong that has partly disappeared: streets filled with neon signage, the layered movement of pedestrians, and the cinematic ascent of the Central–Mid-Levels escalator, famously featured in Chungking Express. From this elevated pathway, apartments, shopfronts, and everyday life unfold at close range, revealing the city’s vertical intimacy. The series also includes the plaza beneath the HSBC Headquarters by Norman Foster, the Kowloon Mosque, street flea markets, and aging buildings covered with posters and advertisements. Interspersed are views of the skyline, the Star Ferry crossing the harbor, and scenes from an urban park—Hong Kong Park—with its Tea Ware Museum, offering a moment of calm within the surrounding density.

The later photographs from 2015 revisit Hong Kong through its streets and markets, now observed with the Fuji X100. Chungking Mansions—described in Gordon Mathews’s work as “a world in a building”—appears as a microcosm of global migration and exchange. Additional images capture Hollywood Road, sweeping skyline views from Kowloon, water-edge promenades, and perspectives from high vantage points that emphasize the city’s extraordinary density. Together, these photographs portray Hong Kong as a city of motion and layering—where neon, infrastructure, commerce, and vertical living combine into one of the most dynamic urban landscapes in the world.