For two years, Brussels-born documentary maker Nicolas Petit has been documenting Hong Kong through candid street photographs, capturing the daily life of some of its 7.3 million people.
An NGO worker by profession, his passion for street photography started in 2014, when he travelled 9,300 kilometres overland from Brussels to Hong Kong.
“The HongKongers project is an ongoing, open-ended personal meditation on Hong Kong,” he told HKFP. “It is driven by curiosity and creative inquiry.”
“I’m particularly interested in portraying the city through a humanist lens using the medium of candid photography.”
“By focusing on everyday human experience and the ‘fantasticality’ of the street, a gallery of characters is being built which ultimately reflect the character of the city itself.”
