Concrete Memento

Photographer

Gary Ng

Category

Architecture Photography - Interior

Company

GaryFive

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2026

Country / Region:

Hong Kong SAR

This series shows moments in the concrete Uji station of Kyoto, Japan, where sunlight funnels through brutalist openings and casts momentary spotlights onto passer-bys ascending, descending or moving in the station at different times of the day. The audience brings home visual souvenirs of fleeting moments of interplay between light, humans and a space for movement and commute. Individuals from all walks of life and at different moments of their life, like students, elderly, locals and tourists etc. were deliberately chosen, as every moment could be a spotlight of its own without noticing.