Video: Derek Man, Culture Shifts: Global
Commissioned by Open Eye Gallery, Derek Man, a UK citizen, re-visited Hong Kong to look at the housing market.
Born in Hong Kong but living in the UK for the past 12 years, Derek Man’s work explores cultural identity and what we call home. He often looks at how we form a sense of place, and find our own ways of feeling like we belong.
Between the human need for shelter and the commercial need for growth, Derek’s photos look at the lives of the people caught in this tension: from the families living in cramped conditions to the estate agents desperate to sell off land. In this cityscape and others like it, the struggle of finding stable homes for everyone grows increasingly more urgent every day.
Culture Shifts: Global is an exhibition of Liverpool/ Hong Kong photography at Open Eye Gallery. 7 April – 18th June 2017.