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Red, pink and yellow neon signs with Chinese characters stacked above a narrow street at night.

Neon Nights

Kowloon, Hong Kong. 2023

I looked up instead of along the street. Above the traffic the signs stack three and four deep: a mahjong parlour, a karaoke club, shop names in red, pink and gold against dark concrete.

Hong Kong has been taking its neon down for years, replacing it with LED or with nothing. I photograph the signs that are still burning because I don’t know how long they will be there.

Place

Kowloon, Hong Kong
22.3160° N, 114.1703° E

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Camera

Body
Sony A6600
Lens
Viltrox 85mm F1.8
Settings
85mm · f/1.8 · 1/100s