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Cheung Chau Beach Road, Cheung Chau, Outlying Islands.
Sony a7II, using a Voigtlander Ultron 35mm manual lens.
“I spotted this group of friends sitting by the beach and looking out to sea, enjoying each other’s company. The sea always makes a great backdrop to a photo, the horizon being a natural boundary to the unknown. It was a cloudy day, but I felt there was something hopeful about this composition.”
Brendan 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.
For over 20 years, the people behind BN have been creating content on the best things in life: food, travel and inspirational people.
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