Street Beat is a weekly section highlighting both Hong Kong photographic talent and the city itself. If you would like the chance to be featured in our Street Beat section, then say [email protected] attaching your portrait and landscape photographs with a brief bio of you.
Portland Street, Mong Kok.
Ricoh GRIII.
“Initially, I walked past this scene on my way elsewhere. I liked the composition, so I quietly walked back and took this shot. I’m very much a visual thinker, and I’m always looking for interesting shapes and compositions. I spend most of my time drawing, so I’m always creating images in some way. If I don’t have a camera or sketchbook, I just draw scenes in my head as I see them.”
Bren Meachen is a British artist and photographer from London, who has been visiting Hong Kong since 2018. He got his first disposable camera when he was six-years old by saving coupons from the back of breakfast cereal packets, and has been fascinated with cameras ever since. Meachen has a keen interest in telling stories, both real and imagined, and uses images to explore the stories he wants to tell. He is interested in how human psychology shapes the spaces we inhabit, and how the spaces we inhabit tell stories about the people who inhabit them. Bren is an active member of the art community in both London and Hong Kong, and has had his drawings exhibited in Central London. He draws comics, and has had a short comic appear in the Anthology Tall Tales, which was awarded ‘Book of the Festival’ by Broken Frontier at Thought Bubble 2024.
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