InfraCQ
Human vs Infrastructure
2024 - Chongqing, China
When arriving in Chongqing, one quickly realises, this, this city is something else. A mass, an organism of a whole other calibre. And I say that after making Hong Kong my home.
Density comes in different gradations. One quickly realises that every person has a different level of what is acceptable when it comes to density. I grew up in a medieval city, Bruges, and here I often people hear people say we don’t need these towers’, the city is already dense enough. And with towers they mean 10 floors, max. Now, after living in Hong Kong for over 5 years, density became a way of life, one has to ‘just cope with’. You can argue, its inhumane, its depressing, its a whole lot of not so great terms, and yes it probably all of the before but one has to accept. And that’s what I did. And secretly, love it.
“InfraCQ is a quiet observation of world’s largest city. The photos in this series deliberately try not to overwhelm, instead the photos look for balance, order, and quietness. They didn’t require me to crawl, climb or do heroic things. The viewpoints of these photos are there, as in, to be seen when strolling around the city. As a model citizen I walked around the city from morning till evening, without any targets. I captured the mundane, as a cohabitant of the other 20,000,000 million people in Chongqing at that time. Except the mundane isn’t so mundane when looking back.”
