Hong Kong has specific urbanity and is one of the most liberal territory in the world by being one of the biggest financial hub. This vertical urbanity is definitely impacted by the Finance business architecture perceptions : Bank are building towers by hiring the best architects in the world to show their strength, power, and their control of their future. These photo series is questioning these relationship to future through architecture and also its sculptural aspect. Tourist are using to say that Hong Kong is like Blade runner universe. In fact this contemporary architecture is dealing with a kind of science fiction by using the highest technologies to show the strength and power of the banks who are owning them.
The concept is also to use the best analog camera from last century (XXth) to focus about typical XXI century issues to re-activate on physical way a kind of modernist point of view...
Photos shot with:
- Rolleï XF35 Rolleï Sonnar 2.3/40 mm lens and KODAK TMAX 100 film
- Zeiss Icarex 35 camera, Zeiss Tessar 2.8 / 50 mm lens and KODAK TMAX 400 film
- Rolleï 35 camera Zeiss Tessar Lens 3.5 / 40 mm and KODAK TMAX 400 film
Valéry Grancher from 2016