Home
About
Work with me
Contact
Gallery
Categories

Search for:

Home
About
Work with me
Contact
Gallery
Categories

Skip to content

Categories

back to top

The Thames captured on Cinestill. That halation! 😍

Not sure if those lines in the sky are light leaks as they don’t appear much in the rest of the photos from this reel, but this shot turned out okay considering it was so dark at the time. 🌃

#olympusxa2 #grainisgood #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #analoguephotography #cinestill #cinestill800t #cinestill800

The annual LNY dinner at my grandmas! More on my s

The annual LNY dinner at my grandmas! More on my stories as always. 🍚

#lunarnewyear #yearofthetiger #lny #realchinesefood

Okay here come the new year good pics. Popped roun

Okay here come the new year good pics. Popped round to my auntie’s last night for a mini gathering with my cousins and she put on quite the spread, 8 dishes as it’s the ideal and lucky number. Off to my grandmas later for the usual feast! 😍✨

#eseajoy #eseaeats #realchinesefood

This is probably the most important book that I’

This is probably the most important book that I’ll read this year, and actually this has turned into quite a personal post, so grab a cuppa! ❤️

East Side Voices really made me think about what it means to be seen as a minority. To be seen as Chinese first before British.

But then there’s also not always fully connecting to either culture. When I’m in HK, it feels great to be able to blend in, but I’m considered a foreigner - ‘oh she doesn’t know because she’s from England’ comments, which feels pretty rubbish. I feel clued up most of the time but they’ll always be moments.

The book also made me think about how hard each generation has had it. I know very little about my paternal side because my grandma doesn’t talk about the past but I think about their stories often, how my grandparents moved to HK from China, in a bid to escape communism, before arriving in HK with not much at all. In HK, my grandparents did their best to raise four kids in a tiny public housing estate in Kowloon, before eventually two of the kids (the sons 👀) moved to the UK and ended up staying. Today, us grandkids definitely experience a disconnect when they live so far away. From experiencing my grandad passing away and the race for my dad to fly over, let’s just say I could never move that far away from home.

Mum’s side is less dramatic and similar to a lot of Hakka people in the UK, she grew up in a little village in the New Territories in HK and was sent to the UK as a teenager to follow her parents who had moved years before (she barely knew them back then), only to be set to work at their take away in Hall Green on day two of landing in Birmingham. A world away from the village life she once knew.

My family’s immigration stories are not unique and this book really shares the thoughts and feelings so many of us have about our heritage. It’s truly comforting to read stories that resonate so much. Thank you @eastsidevoices @hels_lee and all the writers for creating such a brilliant book. 🙌🏻 #eseajoy

There’s just over a week to go until lunar new y

There’s just over a week to go until lunar new year and here’s a photo from last year.✨

One of the things my dad likes to do before LNY is prep and pan-fry two fish to place in the home. This refers to ‘年年有餘’ (Nin Nin Yau Yue) which is a lucky phrase/greeting meaning to have surplus every year (I also made a print on @thewinnieproject that refers to this). The word for fish in this phrase, ‘Yue’ sounds a lot like ‘surplus’, so it’s all symbolic!

The fish sits in our kitchen for about a week! 🐟🐟🥴 and it’s a tradition that he’s grown up with. I don’t many people who also do this (let me know if any else does this too!) but I’m glad I took a few snaps last year. ❤️

📸 Olympus Trip 35
🎞 Portra 400

#olympustrip35 #kodakportra400 #portra400 #grainisgood #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #keepfilmalive #shootfilmstaybroke #thefilmgang #filmcameraclub #lny #lunarnewyear #年年有餘 #lunarnewyear2022 #chinesetradition

Zero time to sort an aesthetically pleasing flatla

Zero time to sort an aesthetically pleasing flatlay today! I took a quick snap during my lunch hour of this colourful print of Choi Hung estate (彩虹邨 - literally ‘rainbow estate’ 🌈) from my friends Sam & Victor at @theaptstudios. It ⚡️INSTANTLY⚡️made me miss HK like crazy.

Hopefully a trip back to HK can happen in the future so I can hang out and visit coffee shops with these two.🤞🏻😭 If you need stunning photography of HK, you know where to go! 🙌🏻

#hongkong #choihungestate #hongkongstore #homekong

This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

About
CONTACT

Copyright 2023 Diamond Canopy