Wow! Yeah a lot has changed since 2002, some parts of the city would be unrecognizable to you today! I haven't been back in 5 years and I'm bracing for all the changes that I am going to see. Particularly after 2002 was when the gambling monopoly was broken and then American firms rushed into the market developing American style casinos and resorts and mimicking the Las Vegas strip with the Cotai strip.
My natural instinct with photography is to be a documentarian above all else. I have this keen interest in documenting what things are like now, for later. I’m gullible to the assumptions that photographs are real and not manipulations of reality, like I think we all can be from time to time. With Google Street View, I’ve long felt this worry that, like AI automation, I’ve been replaced by technology. Someone documenting the human geography of a place would’ve had historical merit 20 years ago, but now? There’s a widely accessible archive going back 15 years that does that job in a more comprehensive way than I or any one photographer ever could. I think that’s why I also try documenting more candid moments, personal memories, and have also shifted more towards abstraction in some cases.
Love this. I visited Macau years ago (2002) so these images sort of correlate to my distant memories…
Wow! Yeah a lot has changed since 2002, some parts of the city would be unrecognizable to you today! I haven't been back in 5 years and I'm bracing for all the changes that I am going to see. Particularly after 2002 was when the gambling monopoly was broken and then American firms rushed into the market developing American style casinos and resorts and mimicking the Las Vegas strip with the Cotai strip.
My natural instinct with photography is to be a documentarian above all else. I have this keen interest in documenting what things are like now, for later. I’m gullible to the assumptions that photographs are real and not manipulations of reality, like I think we all can be from time to time. With Google Street View, I’ve long felt this worry that, like AI automation, I’ve been replaced by technology. Someone documenting the human geography of a place would’ve had historical merit 20 years ago, but now? There’s a widely accessible archive going back 15 years that does that job in a more comprehensive way than I or any one photographer ever could. I think that’s why I also try documenting more candid moments, personal memories, and have also shifted more towards abstraction in some cases.