Mark Leong’s Photos From Hong Kong

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In Post-Colonial Hong Kong, Finding Whimsy and Menace

Mark Leong’s cinematic photos reveal an uneasy relationship between old and new, order and chaos in Hong Kong, 15 years after its handover from Britain.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/in-post-colonial-hong-kong-finding-whimsy-and-menace/

During the months he spent trekking through this city for National Geographic magazine, Mark Leong was on a hunt for glimpses of it’s underground. Years of Hong Kong cinema had colored his view of the place, rendering it a seedy scene beneath a vibrant subtropical metropolis.

In a sense, he went looking for what Ridley Scott called “Hong Kong on a very bad day.”