ZIQIN CHEN / PHOTOGRAPHY
Passengers silhouetted inside a ferry against warm evening light
Between shores · Hong Kong, 2026

Visual diary · 2024—Now

Watching the
present become
memory.

Photographs of cities, people and the brief moments that usually disappear unnoticed.

Enter the archive

Selected work · 01—09

Notes from
a moving city.

An ongoing study of scale, time and human presence across Hong Kong and the cities I pass through.

A pedestrian framed by modern buildings and an open blue sky01

Between the towers

City movement

A large station clock above blurred commuters02

Measured in passing

Transit study

A red Hong Kong taxi seen from directly above03

Route / Root

Hong Kong

A lone guard in a patch of light beneath a dark historic facade04

On watch

Architecture & people

A black and white study of windows and architectural geometry05

Rooms without voices

Structure study

Two small figures at the end of a shadowed urban passage06

At the far end

Street observation

Red sails crossing Hong Kong harbour in late afternoon light07

Old sail, new skyline

Victoria Harbour

Two people facing the illuminated Hong Kong skyline at night08

Across the water

Night study

Boats resting in a harbour beneath a glowing sunset09

Anchorage

Last light

Artist statement

Still learning / Always looking
“I photograph ordinary moments before they become invisible.”

I am drawn to the relationship between people and the spaces around them: a commuter moving beneath a clock, a figure held by architecture, or a harbour changing with the light. The camera lets me pause these small encounters and ask what they say about life now.

About

A student,
observing now.

I am Ziqin Chen, a high school student from UWC. I work with photography and film, focusing on contemporary life—especially cities, architecture and the people moving quietly through them.

This is a living archive. It will keep changing as I travel, learn and develop a more precise way of seeing.