The Monoliths, 2010-2012

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There are over a number of 130 fortress, batteries and bunkers that were built around Hong Kong by the 1930s, before the beginning of the 2nd World War. Those military structures were being destroyed/ damaged during the combat or abandon after the 60s. They were built by high intensity cement, enhanced reinforcement bars and stones to form a monolithic character structure, in order to protect the soldiers and war apparatus inside. The ruins of the military structures are not same as some other ordinary monuments with inscriptions, not just because of its configuration and building materials, but they carried with them marks made in warfare combats, as well as the intervene of human activities and nature weathering after the end of war. They are the sign of that moment in history.

 

I took this series of photographs of Hong Kong military ruins and cemeteries with a pinhole camera that was made by a 200 cats 7.62mm machine gun ammo box.