The worm’s point of view highlights the contrast between the busy market and the tall buildings that look like they are touching the sky.
Wide Angle
The wide angle captured the entire Wanchai Wet Market in one shot, along with the colour, sights and smells that it offers.
View Frame
This interesting shot captures one frame within another, within another, framing the small street which frames the food center.
Skewed Angle
The angle makes it look like the tall buildings are looming over the entire market, watching it change throughout the day.
Seriality
The serial of 4 photos captures a very focused man selling seafood to another normal customer.He is extremely busy and multitasks while handling the front of the shop.The small shop in itself is his entire source of livelihood.While focusing on his job, he doesn’t even glance at the customer, but continues doing his job.
Perspective
The one point perspective makes the road almost seem endless, while giving it a 3 – Dimensional look.
First Person View
Here the person is me, and and the viewer looks like he/she has just discovered this market.
Hidden in the heart of bustling Wanchai, and right next to the grand and sparkling Times Square, the Wanchai wet market had snaked through the narrow by-lanes of Bowrington and Wanchai Road to create a unique urban space of its own. Spending an entire evening observing the people and the roads reminded me of Giuliana Bruno and her discourse on ‘slow observation of the everyday’ in Architects of Time. The photography technique inspired me to look at things in a new way while understanding my own perspective, giving me a chance to ponder over my observations. Like a jump from the map to the actual street, I felt like I was truly discovering raw, urban Hong Kong life.
Crop
The road is naturally being cropped by the various signs. Together with the closeness of the buildings it forces us to view a small section of the long road.
Focus
The focus of this field work was entirely on the market and the what the space was trying to tell us, and I have used the technique to highlight it above.
Bird’s Eye View
Combined with a wide angle, it shows the market from above. A line of AC generators mark the imaginary border between the market below and the residential housing above.
Chiarascuro
The contrast between the falling night and the red brightness of the market is the focal point of this shot.
Zoom
You can find beauty anywhere if you look hard enough. It was refreshing to stumble upon these flowers in the busy wet market.
By: Anahita Garg (3035557856)
1 thought on “Field Trip 1: Street in Wanchai”
Natalie Khoo says:
There are a lot of interesting issues and observations raised through your captions and photos. I would advise you to be even more adventurous with your photos. In the First Person View Shot, you could have a larger map, so that the printed map merges with the physical street to create an illusion between virtual and real. Similarly, in the Crop Shot, you may not need to need to capture all the signs, but a gap between two signs and show the cropped street between the small gap.
There are a lot of interesting issues and observations raised through your captions and photos. I would advise you to be even more adventurous with your photos. In the First Person View Shot, you could have a larger map, so that the printed map merges with the physical street to create an illusion between virtual and real. Similarly, in the Crop Shot, you may not need to need to capture all the signs, but a gap between two signs and show the cropped street between the small gap.