Come and see Hong Kong as you've never seen it before. Viewed through the eyes of several talented photographers, with their idiosyncratic perspectives on Hong Kong's cityscapes, both iconic and unseen, the city comes to life in a unique visual feast.
The Hong Kong Heritage Museum's new photography exhibition - entitled 'City Flaneur: Social Documentary Photography' and running until January 3 - showcases exemplary works spanning half a century.
Each exhibit is a distinctive work of art, yet the 260 photographs make for a peculiar but cohesive visual chronicle of Hong Kong life since the 1950s. By documenting dramatic changes, subtle nuances and enduring constants in the city's social landscape, they provide a pictorial witness to both the ephemeral and the permanent.
Sometimes poignant, sometimes quirky, but always richly evocative, the exhibits are masterpieces taken by 34 photographers and an art duo. They are divided into four categories: street photography, social documentary, new topographics, and conceptual and manipulated photography.
The exhibit is the museum's second offering in its Hong Kong Photography Series, which aims to promote the art of photography by highlighting outstanding pictorial works while simultaneously tracing the development of contemporary documentary photography in the city.
The first programme in the series - 'The Verve of Light and Shadow: Master Photographers Tchan Fou-li, Kan Hing-fook, Leo K.K. Wong' - was staged last year and exhibited works by three seminal artists.
This year's guest curatorial team includes distinguished photographer and educator Joseph Fung Hon-kee; Blues Wong Kai-yu, co-founder of the pH5 Photo Group; and Wong Suk-ki, a lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts at Baptist University.