Permanent Structures, Passing Bodies

Hong Kong — 35mm Fujifilm

“Permanent Structures, Passing Bodies” examines the tension between architectural endurance and the fleeting nature of human presence. In Hong Kong, the city operates as a dense and repetitive system — façades, transit lines, signage, and crossings forming an ordered framework that outlasts those who move through it.

The human figure appears in transit: crossing, waiting, dissolving into the urban fabric. I am interested in that fragile negotiation between body and structure — how space shapes movement, and how movement briefly activates space.

Working with 35mm analog film allows me to approach the city as material memory. Grain, tonal shifts, and subtle imperfections are not incidental; they reinforce ideas of accumulation, erosion, and time embedded in the built environment.

Each image becomes a fragment of urban respiration — a moment where permanence and impermanence coexist within the same frame.