Diana Jou and Lara Day of the Wall Street Journal have produced a new 15-minute documentary about the Kowloon Walled City. Once the densest place on Earth, the colourful, maze-like hotbed of of ‘crime, grime, commerce and hope’ was torn down 20 years ago…
Below are shots from ‘City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City‘ – a photobook by Greg Girard and Ian Lambot.
The duo are planning an expanded, follow-up edition…
They are seeking funds via Kickstarter – click below to visit…
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This project will only funded if at least £50,000 (HK$644,983) is pledged by April 19th. Read an interview with the pair at Gwulo or visit their website here.
Other Kowloon Walled City posts on the blog…
- Art Inspired by Kowloon Walled City.
- Rare Shots from Inside the Old Kowloon Walled City.
- A Brief Visual History: Kowloon Walled City.
- Kowloon Walled City Recreated in Japan: Pictures.
Blog posts charting Hong Kong’s colourful past…
- 1000+ ‘Before and After’ Photos of Old & New Hong Kong.
- Cool Vintage Hong Kong Tourism Posters.
- Execution of Namoa Pirates in Kowloon, 1891.
- Hedda Morrison’s Hong Kong: Photos from 1942, Beautifully Restored.
- HK’s Boom Years: The Best of Fan Ho.
- Hong Kong’s Most Offensive Place Names.
- How Hong Kong Was Made: Iconic Buildings Under Construction.
- Mainland Refugees Fleeing Famine Rejected by HK.
- Margaret Thatcher in Hong Kong.
- More Vintage Photos of Old Hong Kong.
- Newly Unearthed Photos of 1950s Hong Kong.
- Pictures of Hong Kong in 1972.
- Rare Shots from Inside the Old Kowloon Walled City.
- Shing Mun Redoubt, HK’s Secret WWII Tunnels.
- Street Scenes in Dreamy Colour 1954-2004.
- The ‘Great Chinese Takeaway’ – the 1997 Handover.
- The 1958 Hong Kong Cha Cha Championship Winner (Bruce Lee).
- The 1967 Hong Kong Riots.
- The Bombing of Hong Kong by the U.S. 14th Air Force.
- The Day a Cargo Ship Washed up on Cheung Chau Beach.
- The Hakka Walled Village of Tsang Tai Uk, Sha Tin.
- The Iconic ‘Two Girls’ Kwong Sang Hong Cosmetics Brand
- The Luxury British Liner at the Bottom of Victoria Harbour.
- Unseen Royal Geographic Photos.
- When the MTR Was New.
Blog posts celebrating and critiquing development in the City of Lights…
- 3 Future Maps of the MTR.
- A Luxury Treehouse for Hong Kong.
- A Peek Inside the New LEGCO Building.
- Awesome 3D Maps of the Hong Kong Overground.
- Construct Your Own Paper ‘Pop-Up’ Hong Kong.
- Cool (and accurate!) 3D ‘Sim-City’-Style Map of Hong Kong.
- Cool Photos of Hong Kong in Miniature.
- Diagrams of Hong Kong’s Skyscrapers in Height Order.
- Edwin Lee’s Hong Kong Timelapse.
- Evolution of the Hong Kong Skyline – a Visual History.
- Hong Kong 2013 vs. Fritz Lang’s 1927 Masterpiece ‘Metropolis’.
- How Hong Kong Was Made: Iconic Buildings Under Construction.
- How to Tell the Time from the HK Skyline.
- If Everyone Lived at the Same Density as Hong Kongers.
- Kowloon Walled City Recreated in Japan: Pictures.
- Michael Wolf’s ‘Architecture of Density’.
- Michael Wolf’s Hong Kong Cornerhouses.
- Preview of HK Kowloon XRL Station.
- Six Spectacular Hong Kong Time Lapse Videos.
- The Birth of the MTR (Documentary).
- The Tiny HK Apartment With 24 Rooms in 1.
- When the MTR Was New.
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Am looking forward to Greg Girard and Ian Lambot’s new boook. I’ve always been fascinated by the walled city. Luckily, it is possible to get sort of but not quite the same experience with some urban villages in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. I’ll be making some posts about that on my blog http://natetseng.wordpress.com soon