Noise Floor
2026 (ongoing)
Camera-less Photography
Image making without the little black box, raster formats, mechanical settings, and a lens.
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18 August 2026 at 13:14. Shek Pai Wan, Hong Kong. Miscellaneous flotsam, including a sun-bleached packet of laundry detergent, broken watermelon shells, and planks of wood, caught in the shallow waters of a bay’s receding tideline, atop a mud-brown bed of sand. // The ocean is a hard drive of human endeavour. 14 August 2026 at 09:11. Heng Fa Chuen, Hong Kong. A screenshot of a tobacco advertisement. The ad’s copy pledges a ‘smoke-free future, today’. // Connected to a Malaysian server via VPN—trading data protection for a weak regulatory framework—an advertisement from a US multinational inserts itself into a news article about the potential transfer of the young Arsenal player, Myles Lewis-Skelly. 27 July 2026 at 18:40. Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. A retail display of heaped Calbee potato chips—stark in their tinfoil colourlessness and fluorescent habitat—accompanied by a note explaining that the desaturated packaging is a result of eco-friendly business policies aimed at reducing the use of petroleum-based coloured inks. // An active military conflict has upended global logistics and drained the colour from these chip packets, which hide in plain sight behind a vocabulary of environmental responsibility. 22 June 2026 at 13:07. Chai Wan, Hong Kong. On the side of a truck’s cargo compartment are a pair of disembodied hands, palms up, fingers splayed, on a dark blue background. Beneath them are the words ‘HANDS FREE’ and ‘AUTOMATIC SHREDDING’. // These hands invite peace-of-mind through erasure. 14 June 2026 at 16:15. Wan Chai, Hong Kong. A translucent glove, the kind used for eating fried chicken, lies mangled in a roadside gutter, lit by a car’s headlights. // The polyethene skin mimics a human hand, but exists only to separate it from grease. 24 May 2026 at 21:22. Macau. A wall of thousands of small pale green mosaic tiles, intersected by vertical conduits and a network of exposed utility cables. Centred in the frame, a circular street fixture mounted on a double-offset post is covered by a taut, black rubbish bag. // An instrument of civic control rendered powerless by a household bin liner. 10 May 2026 at 12:16. Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Dozens of live prawns, each contained within cylindrical sleeves, packed within a polystyrene box. // A structure of and for compression, the packaging forces the troupe into a high-density pixel-like grid where life is rasterised for transit. 6 February, 2026 at 18:36. Chai Wan, Hong Kong. An industrial building’s rooftop. Bolted above a covered concrete stairwell are telecommunication antennas, cellular transmitters, and a television aerial. A dark blue jacket hangs on a single wire hanger in the centre of the illuminated doorway below, contrasting with the darkening dusk sky. // A hollowed-out marker of human presence sits beneath a web of cellular instruments that convert the building’s private interior outward. 30 April 2025 at 11:44. Fortress Hill, Hong Kong. An obsolete consumer electronic device, inside a ziplock bag, within a street-facing display case. Its buttons are labelled ‘PLAY’, ‘FAST FORWARD’, and ‘CUE SYSTEM’; a scuffed label below declares its ‘PAL Colour System’. // The device’s syntax reveals how it controlled what we saw through its standardised presets.