Living in a Box: Michael Wolf's 100 x 100 photo series

More photos, this time from Hong Kong. China-based photographer Michael Wolf recently unveiled his latest project, 100 x 100: "Photographs of residents in their flats in Hong Kong's oldest public housing estate -- 100 rooms, each 100 square feet in size."

The obvious comparison is Hu Yang's Shanghai Living project which included hundreds of photos of Shanghai residents from all walks of life in their homes. While engrossing, Wolf's photos don't quite live up to Hu's -- Hu's portraits were diverse and often felt like frozen moments in these people's lives; Wolf's, with the subjects posed looking directly into the camera, sometimes feel flat and repetitive ... but what can you expect from 100 100-square-foot apartments in the same building?

It's a formidable project, and one worth checking out. Always interesting to see how other people live.

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