*24x7 (2016-present)

Collage of a busy urban street with pedestrians, tall buildings, a yellow bus, and an airplane in the sky.

Collage of urban scenes featuring airport terminal, airplane in flight, colorful and modern buildings, busy city streets, and pedestrians.

Busy city street with crowded crosswalk, street performers playing guitar and violin, surrounded by tall buildings and colorful signs under a blue sky with an airplane overhead.

Busy urban street scene with colorful buildings, neon signs, people walking and cycling, and an airplane flying overhead.

Collage-style busy urban street scene with crowds of people walking, tall buildings, bright signs, a plane overhead, and a red taxi.

Collage of Ottawa city landmarks including ByWard Market, Parliament building, a horse-drawn carriage, skateboarding, public transit, and people enjoying outdoor spaces.

Three-image collage showing a tiled pavement with grass and stone border, parked cars by a roadside with trees, and the exterior of a modern building illuminated at dusk under a cloudy sky.

About this project

24x7, ongoing series (2016-2017, expanded 2021-present) began as a mock advertising campaign for Hong Kong International Airport and evolved into an ongoing photographic series spanning cities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Canada.
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At every hour, movement, work, light, travel, and private stories occur simultaneously. Each piece is constructed from photographs taken at various times of day, then reconstructed into a 24-part grid. The 24 x 24 inch format extends this concept into a physical object, showing not a single frozen moment, but rather a collection of moments and subject within one frame, creating a border image. This structure mirrors how cities are experienced, not as complete pictures, but as fragments. A street corner in the morning, crowds at noon, glass reflecting sunset, neon at night, a landmark glimpsed from transit, strangers crossing briefly, these are the building blocks of urban memory. Similarly, the collage form works by breaking time and space apart and then reassembling them into a new whole.
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What propelled the project’s growth was the realization that every city, subjected to the same structure, revealed its unique personality. In fact, grid doesn’t flatten cities into a common visual language; it actually highlights their differences. Variations in tempo, density, colour, and atmosphere become more apparent precisely because the format remains constant. Some cities feel open and unhurried, while others feel compressed, layered, and electric. This tension between a shared framework and wildly different results transformed a single commission into a global project.
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Layered perspectives, repeated structures, and shifting scale create a sense of constant motion. Vertical fragments echo towers, streets, and windows, while overlapping scenes allow quiet moments and crowded ones to coexist, revealing the multiple rhythms a city holds simultaneously. Colour and contrast are deliberately used, not for decoration, but to intensify the atmosphere and highlight what makes each place uniquely its own. While every work is rooted in a specific city, the series focuses less on landmarks and more on urban rhythm. Historic buildings, transit systems, markets, residential towers, signage, and public space are presented as components of a larger visual pulse, each city assembling them in its own distinctive way.

Ultimately, “24x7” explores how time is lived in the modern city, and how that experience varies from place to place. By compressing a full day into a single image, the series transforms photography from a record of a single moment into a portrait of continuous, ever-changing life.