Urban Photo Awards 2022

Hong Kong Obscura is my estranged reacquaintance with the city following a prolonged absence during the pandemic and weeks of forced confinement in quarantine on my return.  Upon emerging from my hermetically sealed box, the city seemed strange, the familiar was now eerily unsettling and distant, the air tainted, hot, thick, and wet, not the cold, thin, scentless and anesthetized lungful’s I had become accustomed to. There was a distinct atmosphere of apprehension, as if a veil had been draped around me, my senses and sense of self in this place was no longer clear. I explored this phenomenon through a lens-less pinhole camera, no focus, no framing, listless and random, it parallels my murky, serpentine flow across this metropolis chimera, capturing this alienation and unease that enveloped me as I tried to find my way home.

The work was selected for exhibit during September and October in the Museo Civico del Territorio – Alessandro Pesaola as part of the Urban Photo Awards European Preview.