32-year-old Belgian photographer Matthieu Bout has been capturing miniature photography of Hong Kong’s streetscapes.
“Hong Kong is simply breath-taking. I’ve never been in a metropolis this big, but it’s [scenery] I’m going to want to start chasing,” he said.
“It’s amazing how millions of people living in such a small area have somehow established order in the chaos. There are quite a few things we can learn from this in Europe and I’m glad I could capture some of it on film.”
During his trip, Bout took about 20,000 pictures, a selection of which will be published in his new art book.
The “tilt shift” technique uses a special lens that actually tilts and shifts, leaving an area on the image in focus and blurring the rest. With some small colour adjustments, it is like Hong Kong “transformed into a Märklin-world,” Bout said.
