A bird’s-eye view of Hong Kong’s crowded high-rises in local photographer’s Walled City series
Andy Yeung uses a drone to highlight today’s overcrowded residential estates that he says remind him of Kowloon’s infamous Walled City, which he saw demolished when a child
Hong Kong photographer Andy Yeung was just eight years old when demolition of the city’s notorious Kowloon Walled City, began 24 years ago.
“When I was a child I lived near Kowloon Walled City,” he says. “Near enough that I could actually watch from my home how it was being torn down. I have childhood memories of how the big iron ball knocked down the buildings.”
Yeung’s latest aerial photography series, taken over two months across several different locations in Hong Kong, was inspired by Kowloon Walled City, and he hopes it will cast a light on the territory’s cramped housing conditions.
A bird’s-eye view is the perfect way to capture how densely packed some of Hong Kong’s public housing estates are, he explains.
