bodyType

customContents

entityId

printArticlePageQuery

filter

article

body

urlAlias

articleSectionsContent

articleSeoArticle

articleSourceHeaderArticle

contentSchemaRenderContent

contentSubHeadlineContent

contentHeadlineContent

mainImagePrintArticleArticle

authorBlockPrintArticleArticle

contentSponsorTagContent

articlePianoPaywallContent

scmpYoutubeContent

hooksTrackPageViewArticle

query printArticlePageQuery(
  $entityId: String!
  $customContents: [CustomContentInput]
  $bodyType: BodyFormatTypeEnum
) {
  article(filter: {entityId: $entityId}) {
    entityId
    body(customContents: $customContents, type: $bodyType) {
      json
    }
    urlAlias
    ...articleSectionsContent
    ...articleSeoArticle_3o8td4
    ...articleSourceHeaderArticle
    ...contentSchemaRenderContent
    ...contentSubHeadlineContent
    ...contentHeadlineContent
    ...mainImagePrintArticleArticle
    ...authorBlockPrintArticleArticle
    ...contentSponsorTagContent
    ...articlePianoPaywallContent
    ...scmpYoutubeContent
    ...hooksTrackPageViewArticle
    id
  }
}

fragment articlePianoPaywallContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...hooksPaywallPromiseContent
}

fragment articleSectionsContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  sections {
    value {
      ...helpersCheckIfNewsSectionInFirstIndexSection
      ...entityLink
      name
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment articleSeoArticle_3o8td4 on Article {
  ...hooksArticleSeoArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
  ...helpersGetArticleTypeArticle
  entityId
  publishedDate
  updatedDate
  summary {
    text
  }
  subHeadline {
    text
  }
  body(customContents: $customContents, type: $bodyType) {
    text
  }
  keywords
  sections {
    value {
      name
      id
    }
  }
  topics {
    name
    entityId
    id
  }
  urlAlias
  authors {
    name
    id
  }
  images {
    style(filter: {style: "768x768"}) {
      url
    }
  }
  readingTime
}

fragment articleSourceHeaderArticle on Article {
  urlAlias
  ...entityLink
}

fragment authorBlockPrintArticleArticle on Article {
  ...defaultArticleDateContent
  ...authorNamesArticle
}

fragment authorNameAuthor on Author {
  ...entityLink
  name
  entityUuid
}

fragment authorNamesArticle on Article {
  authorLocations
  authors {
    entityId
    location
    ...authorNameAuthor
    id
  }
}

fragment blockquoteQuoteContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...contentShareWidgetContent
}

fragment checkersCheckContentContainsStarlingImageContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment contentHeadlineContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  headline
  socialHeadline
  ...contentHeadlineTagContent
  ...helpersUseContentSponsorContent
}

fragment contentHeadlineTagContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...hooksContentHeadlineTagContent
}

fragment contentNewsletterWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    relatedNewsletters {
      ...helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter
      id
    }
    id
  }
  sections {
    value {
      relatedNewsletters {
        ...helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter
        id
      }
      id
    }
  }
  ... on Article {
    relatedNewsletters {
      ...helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment contentSchemaRenderContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...blockquoteQuoteContent
  ...imageContent
  ...inlineWidgetContent
  ...photoGalleryWidgetContent
  ...scmpYoutubeContent
}

fragment contentShareWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  entityId
  urlAlias
  shortUrl
  socialHeadline
  headline
}

fragment contentSponsorTagContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...helpersUseContentSponsorContent
}

fragment contentSubHeadlineContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  subHeadline {
    json
  }
  summary {
    json
  }
  ...contentSchemaRenderContent
}

fragment defaultArticleDateContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...hooksArticleDateUtilsContent
}

fragment entityLink on BaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias {
  __isBaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias: __typename
  __typename
  entityId
  entityUuid
  urlAlias
  urlRedirect {
    toUrl
    id
  }
  application {
    entityId
    id
  }
  ... on Section {
    fullSectionPath {
      entityId
      id
    }
    parentSection
  }
  ...helpersAppBarVariantBase
  ...helpersApplicationBase
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusArticle
  ...helpersStyleSectionContent
}

fragment helpersAppBarVariantBase on BaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias {
  __isBaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias: __typename
  ...helpersCheckIsLiveArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusPage
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesPage
  ...helpersCheckIsPostMagazineArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsStyleArticle
  ...helpersSectionContent
  ...helpersStyleSectionContent
}

fragment helpersApplicationBase on BaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias {
  __isBaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias: __typename
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesPage
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusPage
}

fragment helpersCheckIfNewsSectionInFirstIndexSection on Section {
  name
}

fragment helpersCheckIsAmpEnabledArticle on Article {
  entityId
  types {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
  sections {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
  disableOffPlatformContent
  sponsorType
  published
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
}

fragment helpersCheckIsLiveArticle on Article {
  flattenTypeIds
  liveArticle {
    status
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsMainTopicContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPlusArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ... on Article {
    paywallTypes {
      entityUuid
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPlusPage on Page {
  urlAlias
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPostMagazineArticle on Article {
  sections {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle on Article {
  sections {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPostiesPage on Page {
  urlAlias
}

fragment helpersCheckIsStyleArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  sections {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersGetArticleTypeArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ... on Article {
    types {
      value {
        entityId
        id
      }
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter on Newsletter {
  entityId
  name
  alternativeName
  description {
    text
  }
  summary {
    text
  }
  homepageDescription {
    text
  }
}

fragment helpersSanitizeArticleTypeEntityIdsArticle on Article {
  types {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersSanitizeAuthorTypesArticle on Article {
  authors {
    types
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersSanitizedAuthorEntityIdsArticle on Article {
  authors {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersSectionContent on Section {
  fullSectionPath {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersStyleSectionContent on Section {
  fullSectionPath {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersUseContentSponsorContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    entityId
    sponsor {
      ...sponsorTagSponsor
      name
      type
      id
    }
    id
  }
  ... on Article {
    sponsorType
  }
  ...helpersCheckIsMainTopicContent
}

fragment hooksArticleDateUtilsContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  createdDate
  publishedDate
  updatedDate
}

fragment hooksArticleSeoArticle on Article {
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPostMagazineArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsStyleArticle
  ...hooksContentHeadlineTagContent
  ...helpersCheckIsAmpEnabledArticle
  entityId
  headline
  socialHeadline
  types {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
  authors {
    entityId
    id
  }
  images {
    generic_og: style(filter: {style: "og_image_scmp_generic"}) {
      url
    }
    styles(filter: {styles: ["og_image_posties_article", "og_postmag", "og_image_style", "og_image_scmp_analysis", "og_image_scmp_explainer", "og_image_scmp_editorial", "og_image_scmp_fact_check", "og_image_scmp_debate", "og_image_scmp_live", "og_image_scmp_obituary", "og_image_scmp_opinion", "og_image_scmp_review", "og_image_scmp_series", "og_image_scmp_generic"]}) {
      url
      style
    }
    type
  }
  urlAlias
}

fragment hooksContentHeadlineTagContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  __typename
  ... on Article {
    types {
      value {
        name
        entityId
        description {
          text
        }
        id
      }
    }
    ...helpersCheckIsStyleArticle
  }
  flag
  sections {
    value {
      name
      id
    }
  }
  ...hooksContentHelperContent
}

fragment hooksContentHelperContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...helpersSanitizeArticleTypeEntityIdsArticle
  ...helpersSanitizeAuthorTypesArticle
  ...helpersSanitizedAuthorEntityIdsArticle
  flag
}

fragment hooksPaywallPromiseContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  entityId
  ...helpersCheckIsPostiesArticle
}

fragment hooksTrackPageViewArticle on Article {
  entityId
  publishedDate
  headline
  sections {
    value {
      name
      id
    }
  }
  urlAlias
  authors {
    name
    id
  }
  entityUuid
}

fragment imageContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  headline
  ...checkersCheckContentContainsStarlingImageContent
}

fragment inlineWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...contentNewsletterWidgetContent
}

fragment mainImagePrintArticleArticle on Article {
  images {
    title
    url
    isSlideshow
    size_652x446: style(filter: {style: "652x446"}) {
      url
    }
  }
}

fragment photoGalleryDialogContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  __typename
  ...contentShareWidgetContent
}

fragment photoGalleryWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...photoGalleryDialogContent
}

fragment scmpYoutubeContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  entityId
  urlAlias
  publishedDate
}

fragment sponsorTagSponsor on Sponsor {
  name
  type
  images {
    url
  }
}


sections

types

disableOffPlatformContent

sponsorType

published

headline

socialHeadline

authors

images

publishedDate

updatedDate

summary

subHeadline

keywords

topics

readingTime

authorLocations

entityUuid

Raquel Carvalho



Nuno Assis (@nunoassis) joined Instagram in March 2013. Instagram has changed the way Assis, 30, an architect from Portugal who's been living in Macau for six years, travels and experiences the cities he visits. "I went on holiday recently, and picked a city where I knew I would have people from the community showing me around," he says.
Assis joined Instagram after being motivated by his girlfriend, an active user of the social network, and by a long-term interest in photography. His eyes - well trained to capture perspectives and frame buildings - quickly made him popular in the social network.

He entered Instagram's list of suggested users in June 2013, and has since accumulated 185,000 followers. But more than just followers, Instagram has opened doors to unknown places in different world cities.
"To see the city through photography is a creative opportunity. And it's also a motivation to travel," he says. His trips are these days as much about architecture as about the people he met through Instagram. "The community is a strong motivation. Now I rarely travel alone," Assis says.
Gadgets: Samsung S4.
Editing apps: VSCO Cam.
Favourite shooting spots: Areia Preta (Hac Sa Wan) in Macau. 
Tips: make contact with other Instagramers to exchange ideas and experiences. And shoot everything you like, regardless of trends

 

Elaine Li (@lielaine) joined Instagram in December 2011 Hong Kong advertising creative Li, 25, took her first photos when she was 12 with her father's camera. Instagram started being part of her life several years later, while she was finishing her degree in visual communication in Chicago. She first used Instagram as a photography portfolio, but soon it became something bigger - she now has more than 70,000 followers.
"I started posting very artsy geometric photos. People who I didn't know started following me, and I realised there was this whole community out there," she recalls.

Li's first meetings with Instagramers happened in Chicago and San Francisco, where she eventually moved. "There, I met more Instagramers. I was really involved in the community and would go to meet-ups," she says.
In January 2014, she left behind California's fog and breathtaking sunsets, which she used to capture with her smartphone, and returned to Hong Kong's high-rises. The landscapes and the faces around her might have changed, but her involvement in the community didn't cease. "With InstaMeets it's half-half: it's shooting and socialising," she says. "When you are shooting by yourself you might not see or notice something, but other people in the meet-up might see."

Even though she has received several invitations to shoot for international brands and to be on a jury of photography contests, she has no plans to become a professional photographer. "Once it becomes a job the passion part starts to change."
Gadgets: Canon EOS 70D and iPhone 6. 
Editing apps: VSCO Cam, Snapseed, Skrwt and Afterlight. 
Favourite shooting spot: Kowloon.
Tips: shoot and share what you like

Kelvin Tirta (@kelvintirta) joined Instagram in June 2014. Eighteen-year-old biotechnology student Tirta, originally from Indonesia, had a camera and technical knowledge from photography lessons in high school, but he didn't know what to do with them. "I was not inspired back then," he says.
That changed when he came to study in Hong Kong last September. The new city opened his eyes and he picked up his camera. His first post was of a building in Quarry Bay. "Then I kept posting, and started having fun," he says.
The real fun started when he met the people he used to follow on Instagram. He eventually invited an Instagramer with whom he exchanged comments, "likes" and private messages to meet him face-to-face. That small step took him to a much larger community.

Since then, he has joined two InstaMeets and goes regularly on photo walks with different people. If at first it was the city that led him to shoot again, now he says it's mostly because of the people he met.
Tirta has no doubts that the photo app totally changed his perception of the place he now lives in. "If it were not for Instagram I would not have liked Hong Kong, because university is pretty hard, and I really don't get along with the guys at my university," he says.
He checks Instagram every 10 minutes. Before going to sleep, he might spend an hour browsing through his friends' photos. But now he is no longer concerned about followers or number of likes.

"When I first started, I wanted to get many likes, followers, so I tried to post photos I thought would get more likes, but it didn't work out," he says, laughing. He's realised Instagram is about more than just likes. "It's about how you express yourself and how you show your perspective."
Gadgets: Sony A7 II 35mm and iPhone 6.
Editing apps/software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and VSCO Cam. 
Favourite shooting spots: rooftops, beaches and busy streets.
Tips: shoot everything that interests you. Don't think about likes or followers

Jessamine Barnieh (@jesso) joined Instagram in December 2010. Freelance copywriter Barnieh, 35, was new to Hong Kong when she joined her first photo walk with Instagramers in 2013. The group was known as "InstaYay". "We went to North Point. It was a nice way to explore the city, take photos with a group of other people and be inspired by them," she recalls.
Barnieh, who was born and raised in London, and whose family is originally from the Philippines, already had an account on Instagram. It was only after moving to Hong Kong that she became an active user. "I didn't use Instagram to explore London," she says. "When I moved to Hong Kong, I decided to start a 365 project, where I would take a photo every day of something that I saw."

Capturing images became an essential part of her daily life. For a year, she had a mission: to go out and look for something new each day. Instagram became a sort of visual diary, an online repository of memories. "It was good to explore the city, looking back and reminding myself of what I saw or did. I was also able to show a glimpse of the city where I was living to my friends back home," she says.
Barnieh was part of the first "Instameet HK", organised by a group that emerged after some of the InstaYay founders left Hong Kong. Almost every month, about 50 people - a mix of locals, expats and visitors - meet in a different location to take photos together.

Instagram is Barnieh's way of getting to know people with similar interests. "I was fortunate enough to meet lots of nice people, who then became real friends and who I think I maybe would not have met otherwise."
Editing apps: Snapseed and VSCO Cam. 
Favourite shooting spots: top floor of Hopewell Centre in Wan Chai, Star Ferry and the Avenue of Stars.
Tips: just keep taking photos. Go exploring and have fun with it
For this story and more, see 48 Hours, published on June 18


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Hong Kong and Macau is home to vibrant communities of Instagram fans. We asked four about InstaMeets, sharing photos, making friends, where best to shoot and what kit they use


Hong Kong and Macau are home to vibrant communities of Instagram fans, some of whom have used InstaMeets and photo walks to connect with fellow Instagramers, share photos and make friends. We connected with four of them to talk about their activities on the social network.
