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America Age > Blog > Art & Books > Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze Paperwork Life on the High of Hong Kong’s Hovering Structure
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Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze Paperwork Life on the High of Hong Kong’s Hovering Structure

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Amid the frenzied bustle that’s metropolis life, it may be tough—and even harmful—to cease and observe what occurs above avenue stage. For French photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze, although, trying to the higher flooring of residential buildings and industrial towers in Hong Kong has revealed an astonishing ecosystem.

In his new guide, Echoing Above, Jacquet-Lagrèze paperwork the bushes, birds, and males who occupy town’s sky-high dimension. “Hong Kong’s unique density has made the city grow vertically, and I have been inspired by the different aspects that this density brings, from an architectural point of view and also how it has shaped the relationship between men and nature in this city,” he tells Colossal.

With the South China Sea wrapping three sides and an unlimited territory dedicated to public parks, the area has been largely proof against the horizontal sprawl that characterizes many city areas. As a substitute, locals have constructed up and up, their residences hovering excessive above the bottom.

As talked about in PetaPixel, Jacquet-Lagrèze usually scouts areas on walks round Hong Kong, the place he’s lived for practically a decade. Kowloon—as soon as house to the legendary walled enclave—is his favourite place to shoot as the colourful structure, laundry hanging from home windows, and indicators of damage bear traces of the individuals who have left their mark on town. He’s particularly drawn to employees who would possibly dangle off a facade or drill holes amid bamboo scaffolding, partly as a result of they require persistence and focus to identify.

Jacquet-Lagrèze’s images juxtapose balconies and window air-conditioning models with pure life, together with the opportunistic Chinese language Banyan that sprouts from many roofs. Birds usually eat its small figs and drop the seeds throughout town, permitting the hardy bushes to sprout amid even inhospitable concrete. “They can thrive and reach very large sizes until it becomes dangerous for the building and has to be taken down,” he says, noting that it appears there’s all the time one being rooted out.

Regardless of its ubiquity, this cycle of progress and transplanting occurs to this point overhead that, from avenue view, it might simply go unnoticed. “I find it beautiful to see how the presence of trees, men, and birds are taking turns above our heads, like an echo in a concrete canyon,” the photographer provides. His photographs additionally seize the interaction of sunshine of shadow as complete sides of buildings are blanketed in darkness, reminding us of how little daylight reaches the bottom flooring.

Echoing Above and different books can be found on Jacquet-Lagrèze’s web site, and a few of this photograph collection shall be on view this month at Blue Lotus Gallery in Hong Kong. Discover far more on Instagram.

bamboo scaffolding around a building
a shadowy photo of tall buildings
a tree grows from an upper floor of a building
candy colored residential buildings
a tree grows from an upper floor of an orange building
a tree grows from an upper floor of a building
a tree grows from an upper floor of a building
a purple and white building viewed from the ground
a shadowy photo of tall buildings
tall residential buildings in white and red
a book with an architectural photo nested in plants

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