- Contrast – Cold vs Warm
The huge cold machines and pipes contrasts with the warm interior of the building, where it is people’s home.
- Contrast – A Cat with Air Conditioners
The white bulky air conditioners contrasts with the tiny black cat. However the air conditioners also becomes a shelter for the cats to protect itself from the dangers on the ground.
- View frame – Colorful Frame
The dark narrow passage way, along with the canopy as well as the bits and pieces of the people, creates an interesting frame for the opposite side of the street.
- Bird’s eye view – A different appearance
Standing at the top looking downwards, the back alley looks different. Instead of the dim and narrow feeling provided to people feel when they are standing in it, the alley looks bright and comfortable to stay.
- Seriality – Place for Creativity
Series of paintings or messages done by the people who work in the back alley is captured. Through using “Seriality”, it reveals another aspect of the place, in which it doesn’t only provide a place for people to rest, or merely a pathway that connects different streets together, but also where people’s creativity is evoked and interactions happened. The back alley as if a small community for those who work here, some of the writings on the wall are delivering messages to other people. Some other writings are about the happening of some events. Where dates are noted.
- Wide angle – Corridor to the other side
Back alley is also a corridor that brings people from one side to another, as if a tunnel that connects different world together.
- First person’s view – Passing Through
The people in the image is experiencing the same thing as me. We are passing through the mysterious back alley towards the other side.
- Perspective – The other side
The cold tone alley and blue-and-white bag brings people’s sight towards the other side of the passage way, where a market in a warm color tone appears.
- Perspective – The other side 2
Walls and different bits and pieces works guides people’s sight towards the main street.
- Worm eye – A well
When people are standing inside the back alley, they are as if inside a well where huge air conditioners and tall buildings are blocking the sky.
- Seriality – A well 2
The size of the surrounding buildings becomes extraordinary massive when people are standing inside the back alley. The sense of a well is further emphasized through seriality.
- First Person’s view – The Well 3
Looking upwards, tiny people are inside a tiny alley.
- Skewed angle – An adventure in the Well
The image captures the back alley with the view is skewed. The passage way is embraced by the buildings surrounding it. Through using this technique, it further extends the vanishing point of the image, as if the street does not have an end. Therefore a mysterious feeling is enhanced for the back alley. This technique inspires me to look the space in another perspective. The role of the space changes among different people. For those who work in here, the space serves for resting. While for those who are not familiar with the alley, it becomes somewhere for exploration.
- View frame – What would Happen
The frame reinforces a mysterious atmosphere for the back alley and enhances its attraction to the people, that makes them want to explore the space and understand its appearance.
- View frame – Revealing the Back
The handwork of people is revealed and emphasized through the frame created by the door.
- First Person’s View – A Working Lady
People can alway see how people work in the back alley where they could never see this moment in the other side of the street.
- Crop – The Other Side
The basket corresponds to the wet market in front, and emphasizes the hard working people.
Zoom – Kitchen
Back alley is a part of the kitchen of the restaurants, where foods and other cooking tools are placed.
- Focused – Delivered French Fried Potatoes
The trace of people’s hard work could always be discovered at the back alley.
Lau Tsz Chiu (3035445027)
Your first three shots capture a fantastic side of your chosen back alley. I wonder if you could have extended the issue of creativity and look further for traces of human adaption, i.e. creativity.