A gallery depicting grand, monolithic, almost melancholic up-close photographs of high rise buildings in Hong Kong. It is an awakening depiction of what modern life is like for many people around the globe. It's interesting that the gothic scale of each photograph makes them seem fantastical, and very far off, yet in truth they are examples of the frank realism of many millions of people who live in modern megacities like Hong Kong today.
Many words came to my mind when I saw these pictures but the most gripping part of it was that each of these buildings is filled with human life and activity. I became curious about what the daily lives of each of these people in the tiny little dots and compartments in these photos were made of. A different life that we in the Western world take for granted. The photographer, Michael Wolf, who has been photographing images of Hong Kong for the past two decades, commented that: "Viewed from a distance, the photograph could be mistaken for a supermarket barcode," and maybe this was true. Maybe each building was like a barcode, and maybe each box, each room was like a fragment of data, and maybe that's what we are: tiny dots of data floating in the matrix.
