One Square Foot
By John Fung
ISBN 978-988-99266-1-8
305mm (H) x 305mm (W)
128 pages. Full-color. Hardcover
Bilingual (English & Chinese)
HK$320 (inclusive of delivery)
US$43 + postage fee (outside Hong Kong delivery)
Hong Kong is often cited as the city with the most high-rise buildings
and highest population density. Yet more skyscrapers are being built
to fulfill economic ends. Various reclamation projects along the cityˇ¦s
coastlines have made way for gigantic architectural mega-structures,
further narrowing our harbour. Older buildings are torn down with no
consideration for urban conservation or regeneration. While there are
buildings with low or zero occupancy, developers continue to feed their
insatiable desire to play the market game as residential and commercial
property values rise at an escalating rate. Meanwhile, housing remains
a major concern to citizens ˇV for people living in tightly packed spaces
with no privacy, owning a home is the highest aspirations of many, and
a home mortgage becomes a lifelong obligation.
How much higher will our one square foot go? We are helplessly trapped in this city jungle of architecture, including photographer John Fung. Fungˇ¦s One Square Foot challenges us to seek a different appreciation of the open, geometric abstraction and complexity of spatial relationships in our concrete city. While aesthetically intriguing and disarmingly amiable - and at times one will be lost in these people-less images - Fungˇ¦s new series of multi-exposure photography works literally triumphs over the emptiness of this purposeless congestion. One begins to question what put us in such an unsympathetic city situation.
About
the Creator
John
Fung - Born in 1950s in Madagascar, John Fung moved to Mainland
China with his family at the age of 13. After receiving education in Macau,
Fung chose to live in Hong Kong.