Photo essay: Seeing Hong Kong
Photo posted May 8, 2015 in
Best of CommMedia by Akash Ghai.
Street photography is the art of capturing the stories of everyday life as they flow by. In between assignments, photojournalist Akash Ghai focused his cameras on the unique moments he encountered in his travels through Hong Kong.
A group of men play a game of Chinese chess known as 'Xiangqi' in a park in Sheung Shui, a town on the Northern border between Hong Kong and China. / Photo by Akash Ghai
Jonathan JC, 13, does a trick on his skateboard in the Morrison Hill skate park in Hong Kong. / Photo by Akash Ghai
Tourists take a video selfie on the 'Dragon's Back' hiking trail. / Photo by Akash Ghai
Nathan Law, internationally famous for being one of the student leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Umbrella Revolution, poses for a portrait in Lingnan University. / Photo by Akash Ghai
A Coca-Cola employee opens his company truck's storage to transfer supplies to a local shop in Sheung Shui, a town on the Northern border between Hong Kong and China. / Photo by Akash Ghai
A man stretches to touch his forehead to his leg during a workout in a public park. / Photo by Akash Ghai
Frequent trips to the market are required for people living in Hong Kong's tightly packed housing. / Photo by Akash Ghai
Hong Kong's wet markets feature a wide variety of products in adjoining stalls, from fresh meat to tourist trinkets. / Photo by Akash Ghai
A woman watches a passenger enter the Tseung Wan MTR metro line. / Photo by Akash Ghai
Commuters on Hong Kong's MTR metro. / Photo by Akash Ghai
Passengers on Hong Kong's MTR metro train. The landscape behind the seats is a digital advertisement inside the metro tunnel. / Photo by Akash Ghai
Two women create a digital memory of the view overlooking Hong Kong at Victoria Peak. / Photo by Akash Ghai