Urban Photography / kingymak

31/05/2026

Spent a slow Friday evening kicking off the .mplus

The live performance of Vivian Wang & cinema of the still photographic works from Lamya Gargash brought back a lot of great memories of my early interest in the poetic slowness of still photography




thanks for inviting

30/12/2022

Is there any coastal area that you haven’t been to but would like to explore on HK Island?

Here is a photo taken at the waterfront near my own neighbourhood North Point, & it is also located within one of the very accessible trails that you can join in this year’s “Coastal Trail Challenge”! The Challenge aims to promote urban walkability, access to nature and heritage, healthy, sustainable living and responsible travel. It also seeks to enable the community to become cultural and environmental ambassadors

Honoured to be this year’s Ambassador for the Challenge + the judge to pick the winners of the forthcoming weekly photo challenges. See more details & REGISTER NOW at Hong Kong Coastal Trail Challenge (HKCTC)] by using as referral - there will be 1 free entry donated to a charity organisation for every 5 sign-ups under my referral!

-

你有未到過但想探索的港島沿岸地區嗎？

這張是在我的社區附近海邊拍攝的相片，而這也是這年《環島徑挑戰》一個非常易到的路線之一！挑戰旨在促進城市步行、讓參加者接觸大自然和歷史遺產，並推動健康、可持續生活方式，由己及人，提高文化及保育意識。

很榮幸能當上今年這項挑戰的活動大使，我也會負責選出每週攝影挑戰的得獎者。現在登記參加時填上 ，每五人成功報名，大會將以我的名義贊助一位非牟利機構的受益人參加環島徑挑戰！詳請請到 Hong Kong Coastal Trail Challenge (HKCTC)] 了解更多。


#香港島環島徑挑戰

05/12/2022

To me, imagination is an essential part of my urban photographic exploration where I look for visual metaphors in the conversations between natural & man-made elements in different scales- e.g. can you see the micro natures in Seijun Nishihata‘s “Yamizo Stone” and Ikuya Sagara’s “Floating Tree House” in ?

Over the years, has been driving innovation with a vision to create homes and experiences, build neighbourhoods, and elevate everyday lives. The “Realising Your Imagination” Creative Competition invites you to unleash your imagination through creating multimedia digital artwork that depicts an ideal community, a city of the future, and a dream way of life, all the while drawing inspiration from Henderson’s cityscape-shaping projects and developments across Hong Kong.

R e q u i r e m e n t s
👉🏻 Discover traces of Innovation, Sustainability and People from Henderson Land’s landmarks and projects across Hong Kong
👉🏻 Submit artworks in digital mediums
👉🏻 Write an approximately 200-word description of the artwork in Chinese or English 
👉🏻 Upload your digital artwork to the Competition website. The file size must not exceed 200MB
👉🏻 Like and follow  for constant competition updates

P r i z e s
Winners will invited to display their artworks in Henderson Land’s exhibition and receive awards that worth more than HK$380,000 in total, including an art trip to Europe and cash prizes.

For more information about the competition, please visit: https://realising-your-imagination.hld.com/competition

    #恒基  #恒基地產  #築動你想像

09/10/2022

微醺秋日午後
以從1904年傳承到今天的城市速度
在搖晃中感受着本地手造的木車廂、機械美
再給好友們倒杯氣泡酒

a beautiful afternoon catching up with my ex-colleagues & friends at our 1st daytime !

✔️ ☀️ perfect temperature at open deck
✔️ 🏙 through the middle of the city
✔️ 👥 max capacity relaxed to 12 + 12 pax (upper + lower deck) - perfect for our group size to hangout together!
Hong Kong Tramways 香港電車
Tram Party 電車派對

30/09/2022

Happy to be a part of ’s campaign to share my view on “Sustainable Travel” from - at this moment when travel restarting! To me, there's no doubt that “Sustainable Travel” should cover more than just environmental concerns. The idea should also be about understanding the unique culture of a place & everyday life of people, and be part of the process in strengthening such attractiveness of the place.

As an example, I discovered in an architectural photo documentation project last year that there are very sustainable ideas behind brutalist style buildings from the 60-80s. These buildings used raw materials without excessive decoration. The reason behind this dated back to the vision of a post-war period to build fast in an economical, basic and honest way. These have all been very interesting findings beyond their visuals, and have a lot of contextual clues to the characteristics, culture, and history of the pre-golden period of Hong Kong. All photos for this campaign were captured with a certain abstraction to trigger curiosity in exploring such hidden sustainable styles & unknown history that once existed but are being valued again today when building heritage is becoming a top sustainable topic in both Hong Kong and around the world.

Do visit the campaign’s photo exhibition this coming week to learn more about the story behind each of my photos on this topic:

‘Sustainable Hong Kong Through Your Lens’
G/F, Hyatt Centric, Victoria Harbour
from today 30 Sep (Fri) till 6 Oct (Thu)

02/03/2022

💪🏻

無論官方和民間的歷史研究或保育機構，在論及建築物與建設時，二戰都是重要的歷史分界。 考城學社（Urban Studies Institute）的何尚衡（Alfred）聯同建築師龍文菁（Carla），以及香港大學建築文物保護課程的畢業生和學生Anne、Cas...

17/02/2022

miss HK streets? check out my 2 new artworks available for art print at Bamboo Scenes

If you’ve been following our social media, you’ll be well aware that we’ve been teasing some very exciting happenings for Bamboo Scenes. Luckily, we’re all systems go on that front and ready to share the details with all you art lovers! At Bamboo Scenes, we aim to keep things fresh by offeri...

08/12/2021

Come and check out our latest Urban Towel collection in collaboration with Urban Photography /
We are at PMQ till 17th of December, shop S210, open every day from 12 to 7 pm!

01/08/2021

德輔道中61至65號的 #華人銀行大廈 最為大眾熟悉或許只有大樓十七樓、總是「排長龍」的百年找換店。

華人銀行大廈由昔日產量不少的華人建築師 #周耀年 、 #李禮之 （周李建築師工程師事務所）設計（其他作品如九龍麵粉廠和香港聖公會聖馬利亞堂）。大樓的水泥外牆吸引了我，1995年呂元祥建築師事務所曾為廈設計過幕牆系統，但現時所見的外加建築裝飾應為2002年 JADL Design Ltd. 負責：高層以不同金屬裝飾部件點綴，水泥外牆成了一道灰色背景，仍然可見；低層以石材全面覆蓋，一時也找不到能看見柱樑間有彎角設計細節、看見原水泥結構的舊相片。

2020年4月經濟日報曾報道指華懋將與中信銀行合作，計劃把華人銀行大廈及華懋大廈兩廈合併，重建成1幢25層高新商廈，但暫未見有更新消息。

The Chinese Bank Building at 61-65 Des Voeux Rd was completed in 1966, designed by Chau Lu-Nin and Richard Lee (Chau & Lee Architects & Engineers), HK-Chinese architectural firm who designed a lot of buildings in HK since 30s (such as Kowloon Flour Mills & HKSKH St. Mary's Church). The exposed concrete facade caught my attention to snap these few photos and digging out of its architectural history. Full info in Chinese description.

#周耀年李禮之畫則設計
#現代主義建築 #現代主義
#中環 #香港


1km Studio。

16/07/2021

#中銀膠囊大樓, 1972

從友人專頁 Charles Lai 黎雋維 - 香港建築歷史 留意到有關大樓的保育報捷消息， #黑川紀章 設計的中銀膠囊大樓正以眾籌募集資金，把單位模塊獨立拆卸、改動還原，捐贈予全球博物館作展示用途。大樓在當時 #代謝派 概念上，每個單位設計為可獨立更換，是現代建築史上首座真正的膠囊模塊建築，模塊的概念包括單位內已使用現在發展得非常完善的日式 #ユニットバス 。同樣的概念比香港近年突然討論的「新設計」圓筒集裝住宅早了四十年便已實行，或解釋了行內對香港此刻討論此類設計的興趣極低的原因

繼早前中銀膠囊大樓的變種設計— 以同款的4個模塊組合中央混凝土結構建成、 #黑川紀章 的自用的別墅 也由同是建築師的兒子以眾籌幫補修繕資金，這或許打開了一個建築師加上本身非建築物持份者能因著建築價值，而能實質參與保育的契機

, one of the most important masterpieces in modern architecture history, was planned to be demolished a while ago- yet good news was announced this month that the building would be taken down unit by unit. They would be refurbished with the help of crowdfunding, and be donated to museums all over the world - perhaps that’s a good way for architects & general public to be the stakeholders of architectural conservation projects?

中銀カプセルアートプロジェクト（Nakagin Capsule Art Project）
#中銀カプセルタワービル
#代謝運動 #代謝派