Artist Alex Ma's duplicitous tale of two cities
Alex Ma blends his birthplace Hong Kong and his home Sydney in a celebration of universality
Photographer Alex Ma, 61, is a cheat, and he wants you to know it.
His trick is to take a photo of a street scene in Hong Kong and then find a similar situation in Sydney. He joins the two images together to create a single image. It is difficult to tell where one city stops and the other begins, which is one of Ma's goals - to show the dual identities of Sydney and Hong Kong through the deception of technology.
"It's to reflect the lifestyle of the two cities, which have a similar history, size of population and weather," he said. "And we both have a very nice harbour."
Both cities were home to large migrant populations, which created a multicultural landscape, Ma said.
"Ninety per cent of my photos are of people, and even though they are different places, the photos create an illusion they live in one place, one world."