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On assignment photoessay: Chinese University of Hong Kong Library

June 4, 2016 by Ming Thein

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One from the archives for today – I thought I’d posted this a long time ago, but turns out it sat in the ‘draft posts’ folder. Oops!

Inspiration begets inspiration. At least that’s my own theory of creativity. If you’re in photographically inspiring surroundings, it’s unquestionably easier to make an interesting image than otherwise – or at very least feel that you’ve got far more possibilities to hand. There are some assignments where one must fall back onto professionalism and the motto of the US postal service* to get the job done, but then we also have those where you couldn’t stop shooting even if it were forbidden. This assignment was most certainly the latter, and appropriate given the subject was the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s new library space – which in itself is presumably meant to be inspiring to its students.

*Come rain, come shine, dogs be damned etc.

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Filed Under: On Assignment, On Photography Tagged With: architecture, chinese university of hong kong, cuhk, hong kong chinese university, interiors, library, ming, ming thein, mingthein.com, on assignment, photoessay, thein

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