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Capturing Hong Kong in three dimensions! This French artist is documenting Hong Kong in 3D, one photo collage at a time.

In this video, Chou Ching Hui speaks about his work Animal Farm No. 6 and Animal Farm No.8, from probably one of his most ambitious projects Animal Farm. Animal Farm is based on a five-year-long photography project that involved Chou's theatrical set with staged props and performers, mimicked the sumptuous yet often baffled life of modern civilization. Through delicately exquisite yet vibrantly colored images, Chou conjured a kind of hyper-real atmosphere to create his own photographic language. The complete series of Animal Farm features nine sets of photographs, installations and video works. The images urge the viewers to re-examine their situation, to become conscious of their constraints, and to ruminate on the possibilities of struggling free. Chou negotiated to use Hsinchu Zoo and Shoshan Zoo in Kaohsiung as the sets of this photography project. Shooting in a real zoo, Chou uses the cages as an allusion to modern people’s lives. “The society is as a cage, where we are jeering at the people living in there” says Chou.

In this interview, Almond shares the stories and events that inspired each work within the Parade series. “For years, my works have been exploring the ecology of the society and the issue of existence. I take repeated actions of individuals to represent the value orientation of the society. While the world has been unifying into one, our thinking tends to gear towards one end. People have become faceless with no personal opinion. They blindly follow the trend, repeat what others have said, and are unclear of their values of living." The multiple repeated images of an individual depicted in the every day landscapes of the city create a harmonious yet disturbing ambience. These surreal parade marching scenarios reflects an inherent violence behind and through the perfectly arranged formations.

Hong Kong Art Week: Art Car (2017) A Super Formula SF13 race car with its body design completely reimagined by French photographer Cyril Delettre on display at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong.

“I photographed both the past and the future of space exploration between 2007 and now, from the space race in the 1960s to the NASA SLS launch vehicle expected to go to Mars. The present decade marks the transition from political to economic considerations in space, and the introduction of a worldwide dimension. After the Cold War and the domination of the super powers, the space sector became less of a military priority than an economic one also involving investments by private rms with multiple interests: communication, science, research and development, ecology, health, technology, and even space tourism.” – Vincent Fournier

‘The Man Machine project is a reflection on how artificial creatures such as robots or other avatars can evolve in our day-to-day life. For this speculative fiction series I staged several humanoid robots in realistic reconstructions of usual domestic scenes: at work, at home, in the streets, during leisure... Situations suggest both empathy and detachment towards the robot. My aim was to create a balance between the spectator and the robot, between a process of identification and distance. We find this idea in the “the Uncanny Valley ” – a scientific theory elaborated by the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori which states that the more a robot resembles a human being, the more its imperfections seem monstrous to us. The current development of these artificial creatures in our society brings fascination but also the frightening issue of the social acceptance of these changes.’ – Vincent Fournier