Hong Kong Lines and Patterns

Head On Photo Festival 2024

Jason Au

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Dates: 09 Nov 2024 - 01 Dec 2024

Location: Bondi Beach Promenade, Queen Elizabeth Dr Bondi Beach NSW 2026

Hours: Daily 24/7

Entry Fee: Free

Genres: Street photography

Hong Kong lines and patterns is a street photography series depicting my creative vision of my hometown. It comes with a fine art aesthetic and the compositional approach of isolating urban subjects, geometric elements, and forms from the chaotic urban environment of Hong Kong.

By capturing fleeting moments from mundane everyday scenes, this series portrays different urban characters in the context of their surrounding geometric environment. However, the subjects appear trapped and lost in an artificial geometric maze without realising it. The urban structure seems to confine and enclose them into small boxes with no escape, suggesting the modern condition of how we succumb to the allure of the urban landscape that we have created. Perhaps this is a metaphorical view of urbanity while also implying the hectic modern city life in a metropolis like Hong Kong.

Jason Au

Jason Au is an award-winning street photographer based in Hong Kong, specialising in black-and-white imagery. Renowned for his high-aesthetic works, he combines creative geometric and balanced compositions. His photography reflects a profound understanding of urban life.

His accolades include placements in the Sony World Photography Awards, LensCulture Street Photography Awards, and the International Photography Awards, among others. A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Jason is represented by Blue Lotus Gallery. He has exhibited globally, with features in the South China Morning Post, The Guardian, and The Observer.

This event has concluded

Dates: 09 Nov 2024 - 01 Dec 2024

Location: Bondi Beach Promenade, Queen Elizabeth Dr Bondi Beach NSW 2026

Hours: Daily 24/7

Entry Fee: Free

Genres: Street photography

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