Living in an urban settlement has its advantages and disadvantages. There is definitely overpopulation among the latter. The photos taken by Michael Wolf in Hong Kong are incredible.
"Architecture of population" is what photographer Michael Wolf called his photos taken in Hong Kong. It is a kind of study of urban life in Chinese cities, starting in Hong Kong - although such scenes are common in all major Chinese cities.
Michael Wolf worked in Hong Kong for many years as a photojournalist for the German magazine Stern, but eventually he changed photojournalism to artistic photography, choosing architecture in Hong Kong as his subject. He first started with classic photography of buildings, where he captured the whole picture, including the ground and the sky. He felt that it didn't work and that the picture didn't make an impression, so he cut off the sky and the ground. Only in this way, the photos became unlimited, because the viewer has no idea how many buildings there are to the left, right, up and down. "You have no idea how enormous these buildings are until you see them live," said the photographer. From a distance, photographs actually act like abstract art, the closer the photographer gets to the object, the more life there is, the more panties are drying on the balcony, even a person is caught in the lens.
Everyone creates the story behind Michael Wolf's photographs. But the photographer, as he said in one of the interviews, above all wants more than the "wow" effect, he wants to provoke questions and thinking in the direction of what we are doing to our cities, what is the quality of life here and is this really what we want?
