"Artistic people like us are always like this."
A photographer awaits competition results while he wanders around Hong Kong across space and time, pondering his own relationship with love and death.
Social & External
The people behind it
Ray Chan
Ah-Yi
Emily Ng
Yat-Sam
Enoch Lai
Receptionist
Fung Kai Lun
King Hin
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