“屋頂垃圾 Rooftop Trash” / 死園 Deadyard / SML.20130211.7D.22543.P1.BW
I love photographing trash. I started my “Deadyard” series for a few reasons:
1. Often people respond to photography because of the intrinsically beautiful subject matter. I see it all the time. Sh!tty photos of beautiful men. Very popular photography with no inherent photographic value. It is unhealthy. I have a few of those sh!tty photos on my Flickr stream also. I have no idea why they become so popular. People are responding to the person, not the photography. So by photographing intrinsically ugly things the viewer must respond to the photography itself.
2. I am far from perfect. So in some ways these are self portraits. Broken, battered, depressed and left out to die. They are real. This is what life is. When you face life head one and be able to stay your own, you are fearless. I see beauty in everything around me. Life is much more enjoyable this way.
3. I know looking at other photography works that many people also see the beauty of decay. There are far more interesting things, textures, and forms in wasteland. No one really care to organise them. But they are beautiful. Just imagine for a second that these are not trash but forms in an abstract painting. This is what I would paint if I were a painter. This is poetry to my eyes.
Pictured: the trash file left behind on the roof of some storefront in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Photographed while walking on a pedestrian bridge and thus be able to see all the things which were left behind. Completely random, though every bit interesting.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-11 12:33:04 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/200 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 117 mm
+ ISO: 400
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°16'41" N 114°10'24" E
+ Location: 中國香港灣仔行人天橋 中国香港湾仔行人天桥 Footbridge, Wan Chai, Hong Kong SAR, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4, Photoshop CS6
+ Serial: SML.20130211.7D.22543.P1.BW
+ Series: 死園 Deadyard
“屋頂垃圾 Rooftop Trash” / 死園 Deadyard / SML.20130211.7D.22543.P1.BW
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“屋頂垃圾 Rooftop Trash” / 死園 Deadyard / SML.20130211.7D.22543.P1.BW
I love photographing trash. I started my “Deadyard” series for a few reasons:
1. Often people respond to photography because of the intrinsically beautiful subject matter. I see it all the time. Sh!tty photos of beautiful men. Very popular photography with no inherent photographic value. It is unhealthy. I have a few of those sh!tty photos on my Flickr stream also. I have no idea why they become so popular. People are responding to the person, not the photography. So by photographing intrinsically ugly things the viewer must respond to the photography itself.
2. I am far from perfect. So in some ways these are self portraits. Broken, battered, depressed and left out to die. They are real. This is what life is. When you face life head one and be able to stay your own, you are fearless. I see beauty in everything around me. Life is much more enjoyable this way.
3. I know looking at other photography works that many people also see the beauty of decay. There are far more interesting things, textures, and forms in wasteland. No one really care to organise them. But they are beautiful. Just imagine for a second that these are not trash but forms in an abstract painting. This is what I would paint if I were a painter. This is poetry to my eyes.
Pictured: the trash file left behind on the roof of some storefront in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Photographed while walking on a pedestrian bridge and thus be able to see all the things which were left behind. Completely random, though every bit interesting.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-11 12:33:04 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/200 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 117 mm
+ ISO: 400
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°16'41" N 114°10'24" E
+ Location: 中國香港灣仔行人天橋 中国香港湾仔行人天桥 Footbridge, Wan Chai, Hong Kong SAR, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4, Photoshop CS6
+ Serial: SML.20130211.7D.22543.P1.BW
+ Series: 死園 Deadyard
“屋頂垃圾 Rooftop Trash” / 死園 Deadyard / SML.20130211.7D.22543.P1.BW
/ #死園 #死园 #Deadyard #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects #Crazyisgood
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #灣仔 #WanChai #街 #street #攝影 #摄影 #photography #垃圾 #trash