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How many versions of a city are there? Everyone has their own, of course, but looking into the universe in which the city lives by questioning it is always much more interesting. In this case it's even crazier to do it from the ** Instagram ** of tommy fung , graphic designer and Hong Kong photographer , author of My surreal life in Hong Kong .
The vision of him, somewhat peculiar to the city China , it is possibly because he moved at the age of nine to Venezuela and two years ago he returned to Hong Kong, due to the political and social situation in the country. It was then that he decided to do something different expressing what he felt and saw through the game between photography and photoshop.
If the word contrast exists, it is to explain the difference between two countries like Venezuela and China. “Absolutely, there are two! opposite poles ! What is normal and common for people of Hong Kong , for me it is a novelty and I find it super interesting”, Tommy tells Traveler.es.
In fact, this is what has led the photographer to capture in his instagram account some photographs that coexist between the humor and the social complaint , and above all expose the exploitation of Natural spaces carried out by the government. Not forgetting to talk about dizzying pace of life of the hong kong society.
“The best thing about Hong Kong is the scenery. It is a city with unique architecture and is surrounded by mountains and seas. The worst thing is the pace of life that is very fast, people tend to be stressed and moody, "he adds.
At first many people did not understand that what he was doing was humor, although little by little His Followers They grow and understand their peculiar way of see hong kong . “My main goal is make people laugh and show you things from other perspectives. Maybe the sense of mood in hong kong be a little different and that is why my photos never have only one way of interpretation”, perhaps he is referring to images like this one in which he humorizes the Chinese New Year.
“Many people go to temples to place incenses as an offering to ask good luck and I have seen that some put really big incense sticks, about two meters high. So I guess they really need it to have good luck ”, humorizes him.
FACE REALITY WITH DIFFERENT EYES
If My Surreal life in Hong Kong has served anything, it is to denounce some cases of abuse of natural spaces by the government and companies. And one of Tommy's goals has been from the start raise awareness Y citizen participation in this sense.
In fact, one of the images that has caused the most repercussions has been this one of the God of Death , in which he spoke of the air pollution.
And also about the exploitation of the fresh water reserves . “The government and construction companies are playing with the little land there is and, instead of building more affordable housing for people in need, what they end up doing is more luxury homes at astronomical prices,” he notes.
SECRET PLACES
My surreal life in Hong Kong not only does he discover the city with different eyes, but also different and unknown places, which the author has found by going through it every day to share them on his Instagram account.
If I had to recommend one of them, I would choose Sai Kung , "it is a very big place with volcanic rocks, mountains, beaches and waterfalls . There is a lot to explore there". But if the visit takes a long time, we can enliven it with more of its original images.