Hong Kong – minimalist black and white photography by Bastien Pons
In Hong Kong, verticality meets opacity. Between neon glare and washed-out skies, Bastien Pons captures a city caught between speed and stillness — where the modern façade often hides more than it reveals.
This black and white series strips the city of its color and clamor, allowing texture, contrast, and dissonance to rise to the surface. High-rise silhouettes fade into fog, walls reflect fractured light, and distant figures seem suspended in time.
Far from documentary, these photographs offer a sensory portrait of Hong Kong, one that emphasizes fragmentation, repetition, and visual noise. Surfaces are scratched, veiled, or interrupted — echoing the density and tension of urban life.
Drawing on his background in electroacoustic composition, Pons composes each frame like a piece of ambient noise: layered, open-ended, and full of friction. The result is a form of urban abstraction, where the familiar becomes unfamiliar.
This series invites the viewer to see Hong Kong not as a skyline, but as a space of perceptual ambiguity — alive with presence, distance, and hidden rhythms.