Photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagreze takes you on a photographic journey between Hong Kong's biggest and most eyecatching buildings. "It is a deep immersion into the city's thick atmospheres and a visual record of its wildly diverse built environment," he says ahead of the publication of a new book.
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