PHOTOGRAPHY – Poverty, Age & Loneliness in HK: by Brian Yen

Brian Yen is planning a photobook depicting a year in Hong Kong – a book about birth and death in the most crowded place on Earth. Much of his work involves long exposure photography, but his series also uncovers a less glamorous and fast-paced side to HK. Scenes we are all familiar with yet rarely pay attention to – the invisible lives of the poor, elderly and the elderly working poor.

The collection below begins with someone almost all LKF-goers will recognise…