Urban Density - Hong Kong

Dietrich Herlan, is a talented self-taught Brazilian photographer and urban explorer living in Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong is one of the most fascinating cities in Asia and one of the most expensive as well. Hong Kong has one of the highest population densities on the planet. His new photographic series called “Urban Density” is intended to show the urban density that exists in Hong Kong at which this series includes photographs from Hong Kong and Macau in China.

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How did you get the idea for this series?

I am fascinated by the Urban Landscape. I am always looking for geometry and symmetry obsessively in each composition and Hong kong is a perfect place for it. These residential apartments is incredibly symmetrical and I can create an extremely unique looking shoot with an ultra wide angle lenses by looking straight up. Shooting with an ultra wide angle lenses allows me to capture an extremely unique image by looking straight up. Hong Kong Government Housing is the perfect example of this.

A lack of space and a large population means everything in Hong Kong is built as high and as packed as possible to conserve precious space as an example Smart Urban planning is needed to meet recreational needs for millions of Hong Kong residents with sport ground, as an example this basketball court was built on the top of a car parking.

According to Dietrich Herlan, most of these building are extremely tall and sometime when you look at them closely then you see clothes and thing hanging of the windows and then you imagine that there are hundreds or even thousands of windows and you think about that behind each window there is family.

All the images found here are available for purchase as prints with shipping worldwide.

To find out more you can visit his website today at: https://www.dietrichherlanphotography.com