Guest post from the HK URBEX team – follow them on Facebook.
Art Basel 2015 has kicked off with public show dates from Sunday, March 15th to Tuesday, March 17th.
Tickets start from HK$250 via HK Ticketing. (Advance tickets for Sunday are sold out, but a limited number are available on the door)
‘HK Man’ has copiled an impressive Flickr collection of over 1000 ‘before & after’ photos of old and new Hong Kong. Each photo of bygone HK is contrasted with a more recent one…
…Reassuringly, some scenes – like the trams – never change…
Guest post from the HK URBEX team – follow them on Facebook. See also: A Brief History of Kai Tak Airport.
This evening, Financial Secretary John Tsang posted a selfie with journalists on his new Facebook page. It was a special selfie in that it was shot using a timer and a selfie-stick hours after he delivered this year’s budget.
Hong Wrong is happy to help kick off the inevitable photoshop frenzy. We have provided a PNG file for those who’d like to create their own masterpiece (scroll to the bottom).
Hong Kong’s neon signs are usually shot face-on, but Spanish photographer Rainer Torrado has produced a unique take on the the city’s iconic lights.
Shot vertically from below during night time, the glowing neon tubes contrast with the night sky. “Structural wires act as a testimony of the human intervention on a dark, ruthless nature,” Torrado writes.