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Geometric Hong Kong is a black-and-white street photography series that depicts 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.

This series portrays the way of life for different urban characters in the context of their surrounding geometric environment – all captured from mundane everyday scenes, with fleeting moments seized from near and far. The minimalist approach seemingly contrasts with the maximalism of the dense Hong Kong cityscape, famously known as a concrete jungle.
These subjects look trapped and lost inside an artificial geometric labyrinth without realising it. Perhaps this series is also a metaphorical view of urbanity and the hectic contemporary way of life in a metropolis like Hong Kong.

Jason Au is an award-winning photographer based in Hong Kong. His high-aesthetic black and white works often incorporate creative, geometric and balanced compositions, with prominent use of contrasting light and shadows and dynamic interplay between texture and forms.

Through his images, the way of life of different urban characters is portrayed in the context of their surrounding geometric environment, which were all culled from mundane scenes. Nevertheless, those subjects look trapped inside an artificial geometric labyrinth without realizing it.