Yong Hok Yi

Description

BKK series BKK is the most recent work of a series centered on the cities, from Tokyo to Hong Kong, passing through Lisbon, Florence and NYC. Over time I’ve become more and more passionate of big cities. The hugeness of course and the mood, the vibration, the smell and the noise, all these things that metropolises are captivating for me. And the asian ones particularly, they give me that precious sense of estrangement that make me feel ‘not at home’. Street is dense, unpredictable, populated of life, it is a perfect playground for eagerness. The BKK series talks much more about people than the other series like ‘HK’ or ‘Firenze’, more centered on the urban’s structure. To produce the BKK series I’ve chosen to make base camp in Talat Noi, one of the most popular and ancient parts of Bangkok’s Chinatown, full of mechanical workshops, food stalls and street rusty second-hand car engines stack. A dense neighborhood, noisy and smoky, alive. It was the right choice.