Photography by: Andreas Mass [ Instagram | Professional Portfolio ]
This work from 2012 was shot in Hong Kong and is essentially an introspective examination of a certain phenomenon that I experienced during my very first visit to that vertical, alpha city. Over three weeks I attempted to capture both urban and suburban places, trying to explore and understand the intriguing shifts in my spatial perception.
I am currently working on a new and much bigger series about Hong Kong, which I captured in 2017 while staying there for 6 months. It will feature many different places in HK as I try to portray it in its entirety, to the best of my abilities. I will not be focusing on what it’s known for stereo-typically, but instead on as many of its different aspects as possible: where people actually live in HK; what possibilities those surroundings feature; and how these places feel can vastly vary with where people have to commute to daily for work.
Equipment Used
- Mamiya 7
- Kodak Portra (160 & 400)
Most of my color film work is shot in the 6×7 medium format on a Mamiya 7 and now occasionally also on a Mamiya RZ67. I decided to move to film photography and medium format for personal work quite early on as I discovered and fell in love with the genre or rather the photographical movement, which was born from the exhibition “New Topographics” in the 70’s and the collective of photographers around it. After some time using a 6×6 camera I realized the 6×7 format was a much better fit for the compositions I tend to enjoy shooting urban landscapes. While I still shoot a lot of black and white 35mm film, I enjoy the medium format for color film a lot more, mostly because of the better grain/detail performance and sometimes, when needed, because of the lower depth of field at a comparable aperture.
The work presented in this set is part of Invisible Horizons, a photo book which is available at the following link: https://www.buchhaltung-verlag.de/invisible-horizons-andreas-mass/
