Ian Lambot
Hong Kong Shanghai Bank & Junk, Hong Kong 1985
1985
H 74 x W 59 cm (Framed)
Baryta paper with frame
Ian Lambot’s ‘Hong Kong Shanghai Bank & Junk, Hong Kong 1985’ captures the HSBC Main Building designed by Lord Norman Foster, towering over a traditional Chinese junk boat gliding through Victoria Harbour. Lambot’s composition is deliberate, using the massive scale of the architecture to dwarf the vessel, yet the junk remains the focal point—a reminder of the city's persistent soul amidst rapid modernization. The photo serves as a poignant time capsule of the social changes and development.
About Ian Lambot
Ian Lambot was trained as an architect and worked briefly for the Richard Rogers Partnership before arriving in Hong Kong in 1979, where he lived for the next 18 years. After stints running an architectural model-making studio and working with Foster and Partners - on the early stages of the Hongkong Bank project - he set up Watermark Publications, publishing over the years numerous books on architecture, engineering and design, including four volumes on the work of Norman Foster and, of course, City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City. He now lives in the UK, where he continues to design and publish books on subjects that interest him.