“My images are digitally manipulated composites built from photographs I find online. The technique I use could be considered “hyper-collage”. I cobble together pieces from photos I find interesting and feed them into Photoshop. Through a palimpsest-like layering process of adding and subtracting, I gradually blend the various parts together. I am basically manipulating and assembling a disparate array of multiple photographic elements (sometimes more than 50) to produce a single homogenized image. I do not use a camera at any stage in the process. ” SOURCE
” Metropole is an attempt to emulate my experience of feeling increasingly alienated from the city I grew up in. I’ve spent most of my life in London and when I was first becoming interested in photography I would spend hours wandering through the city, photographing it, in the process also becoming much better acquainted with its present and its past. Today I see much of what I love about the city being swept away by a huge glut of demolition and construction taking place under the guises of ‘development’ and ‘regeneration’, but which in my eyes are actually more a form of degeneration which is stripping away the essential character of London and forcing Londoners out of the city. ” SOURCE
” My work shows the relationship between nature and humanity. I seek vintage photographs and combine them to natural ones, it explains how we are all part of the same environment. There is something magical that takes place in the present or the past, reinterpreting like if it were something new. Visual collages of stories that are narrated in the mind of the spectator. This shows us that photographs, like each of us, are part of a natural universe, taking on the theme of urbanization and mechanization of human beings, where colors and emotions are sometimes paralyzed from the clichés of city life. ” SOURCE
Creating unusual contrasts and juxtapositions, his work blends a variety of decades. Each image is a mélange of materials: black-and-white photography, printed wallpaper, scraps of letters, vintage stamps, excerpts from textbooks, and picture postcards outlined with rough brushstrokes of neon paint. These pieces create a visually stimulating analysis of time and memory merging on the page. Unique titles, often taken from one aspect of the image, give us a glimpse into the focus of each piece, sending the viewer on a visual game of hide-and-seek. SOURCE
“I’ve lived in Hong Kong for 22 years, but I still feel like an outsider. Its back alleys have become my natural habitat as a photographer. I can spend 12 hours a day wandering the narrow walkways behind busy restaurants, housing estates and shops. They can be daunting – filled with broken furniture, electronic castoffs, cockroaches and garbage bags full of food that rots and smells. I’m still surprised by the strange things I come across – and I love that. I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. “ SOURCE
