Children playing with their trucks are ghost images overlaying a jumping gym class, office workers seem to glide through glass and steel, an Aborigine dances over a man swimming in a rocky lagoon.
Hong Kong photographer Tse Ming-chong's pictures take the ordinary and create a different perspective on reality. Some are pure fun, many use transparent overlays and reflections to add another intriguing dimension.
'The overlays are a way of sharing my memories, my feelings at the exact moment I took the shot,' said Tse. 'You have to adjust your focus to decide what you want to focus on and that's my way of giving people the chance to look through my lens.' Nearly 100 pictures form the second part of Face To Face, an Australian Consulate-sponsored cultural exchange aimed at exploring the vibrant, cosmopolitan nature of both countries.
In 1997, Australian photojournalist Lorrie Graham produced 50 black-and-white images from both places. Tse's reply this year is a reflection of the multicultural nature of life in both societies.
'I'd never been to Australia, but in both places I wanted to explore what other people's situations were, just what their everyday life is,' he said.
Australia meant a six-city tour from Darwin to Alice Springs and on to Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane. But completing the project proved more difficult in Hong Kong.
