About
About me
My name is Laurent Dubois. I was born in Belgium some 30 years or so ago and now lives in Hong Kong, enjoying this wonderful city and its culture. I like to refer to myself as an advanced amateur photographer and I have a passion for image, whether it being graphic art, photography or architecture. Since my talents in drawings are limited and the math involved in architecture scared me off, I evolved into photography as an amateur (my job is actually totally unrelated to art as I am a client service manager for a consultancy company in the HR sector… but I like it as well). If you wish to know more about me, feel free to drop me an email at ldubois@downtown-metropolis.com.
Me!
About the Blog
Downtown Metropolis is a showcase of my photographic work and is inspired by the world as I see it. A big, universal and limitless metropolis. Throughout the posts, you will discover selected piece of my photographs which relates to my visions of the place I live (Hong Kong) and the different places I am given to travel to. I wish you to enjoy your visit as much as I enjoy sharing my work and taking photographs.
Along with these pictures, I will drop some blab every now and then for your reading pleasure :)
About the Pictures
Most of my pictures are shot using a Hasselblad 503Cxi and a 500Cm using a Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm and Distagon 50mm lenses on black and white film (Tmax 400, Ilford Pan f+ / delta 3200 and Fuji Neopan Acros 100 for most of the time). I also sometime shoot with an old Seagull 4B1 TLR which I fondly love for its simplicity and unique quality of image. Negatives are scanned using a Canon 9000F flatbed scanner.
I also shoot in digital format with a Canon EOS 40D and three lenses (a 50mm f:1.8, a 28-135mm f:3.5-5.6 and a 70mm-300mm f:4-5.6).
Since I hardly never get out without one of my camera, I photograph life around me with a preference for city scapes and street scenes. All in all, whatever the subject is, I love shooting and share the results in the hope to encourage people seeing the world in all the wonders it offers us to see.
And finally…
I could not leave this blog without paying homage to the great Fritz Lang and its masterpiece “Metropolis” who has been an inspiration to a lot of us and the source of inspiration for most of my photography.
Hope you will enjoy the wonderful sequences of the following video.
