Wanderlust Walks Hong Kong Street Art Tours

11/02/2024

Gung Hei Fat Choi - Happy New Year of the Dragon 🐲🎉✨
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Hong Kong’s trams, also lovingly nicknamed for the sound they make when cars or people are in the way, always make for marvelous moving canvases. For this CNY painted DingDing No.169 with a cool, colourful .
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📍 Hong Kong Island,
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21/01/2024

“Richard Hambleton: The Last Shadows” - a must see exhibition for street art enthusiasts!

Hambleton, better known as “Shadowman”, was one of THE influential figures of the early street art and graffiti movement of New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His “Shadowmen”, dense black figures with their outlines splattered, dripping or melting into the urban canvas, could be found lurking in dark alleys, abandoned buildings and makeshift parking lots and were omnipresent around town. Despite of being so influential at that time, these days Hambleton’s work is often overlooked or forgotten especially in comparison to the work of his contemporaries Haring or Basquiat.

“The Last Shadows” allows to (re-)discover this influential figure by assembling a great variety of his works, photographs of and newspaper clippings on the artist adding rare treats such as pages of his diaries or his very final painting to the mix.

Many honest thanks to Ed, , and Alasdair, , friends and staunch supporters of Hambleton’s work, who together with envisioned this small but important and interesting exhibition.

So if you happen to be in Hong Kong don’t miss this opportunity to “meet” the “Shadowman”.

Richard Hambleton: The Last Shadows
G/F, Soho House Hong Kong
33 Des Voeux Road West, Sheung Wan

12-28 January 2028
11am-8pm (Tues-Sun)

Entry: free of charge

Exhibition 📸 all by :

1/2/6/7/8impressions of the exhibition
3: Photographs by of the Shadowmen in the streets and of Hambleton painting
4: Marlboro Man/ Horse and Rider (1980s)
5: Untitled (Land/ Sea Scape, 1988) from the series “Beautiful Paintings”
9: Hambleton’s obituary in The New York Times (Nov. 4, 2017)
10: “The Last Shadow” (2017), Hambleton’s final work on canvas

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01/12/2023

What I really enjoy about is how “photogenic” it is. Especially the “verticality” of the city offers so many interesting sights that I sometimes catch myself looking upwards so much that I’ll end up with a stiff neck by the end of the day 😅.
This fun collage-style pic of Hong Kong’s highrises was the result of one of those days. It was also the lucky result of experimenting with the multiple exposure function of my with the .
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14/07/2023

Time is passing so quickly and it has now been almost a week already that I had the pleasure to collaborate with on one of their marvellous .

Analogue photolovers .chee and .shnoodle, the LomoCrew and I met at to start into our little adventure.

Things were kicked off by handing out the tech: Lomo supplied the photographers with the 📸 21mm and a choice of 🎞️ 35mm ISO 400 or 35mm films, a set of fun lens attachments and I added little receivers and head phones to make sure everyone could still listen to all the stories while walking and snapping away.

Despite the incredible heat, we had a fun afternoon and some cool pictures were created. Thanks , especially , for organizing the walk.

The creations of the following artists 🧑🏼‍🎨 pop up in the pictures:

one (for 2023)
(for )
(for )licker (for HKwalls 2023)
(HKwalls 2023)


Thanks for letting me use your pictures for this post .chee
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03/07/2023

Last week, I dusted off my old (which I got ages ago from a ), bought a simple reloadable (loaded with Lomo’s ) and went out to snap photos the old school way in anticipation to the upcoming x Street Art this upcoming Saturday.

What an experience :). It felt like time travel to my teenage days, when was the norm. I had totally forgotten how it feels to shoot with an analogue camera, with real film. It was such a pleasure :).

Each time I pressed that shutter button there was that little “click” sound, followed by a slightly coarse sound created by moving the little wheel to forward the film.

Shooting analogue, I realised, is also a great exercise for practising my patience. I found myself waiting for the right moment, thinking twice about the composition of the picture before pressing the shutter button. And then, of course, there was the wait for the pictures themselves.

At this point, I’d like to give a quick shoutout to for the speedy development of my film roll and upholding the spirit of analogue photography, thank you :).

Personally, I found it marvellous how much more deliberate taking pictures becomes again. I absolutely loved it and will surely continue to experiment with all those different elements of analogue photography. I can highly recommend it :).
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14/04/2023

Things are happening again in Hong Kong 😀.
This year, HKwalls, HK's street art festival par excellence, was back with its 8th edition and a marvelous line-up of national and international artists. This video by RTHK provides some good insights into the festival.

09/04/2023

Happy Easter everyone 🐰.

This cool mural by with its jade-green bunnies, created for this year’s edition of supported by , is just the perfect pick for this holiday.

If you happen to be in HK go and check out his mural in the 📍 alley of 13a New Street, Sheung Wan.
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19/03/2023

Street Art in HONG KONG
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🧑🏼‍🎨 .licker
📍 Square Street, Sheung Wan
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Lauren YS’ mural for 2023 in the making.
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26/03/2022

We keep forgetting to post this, Alex was on TLC again and this is the video!!!
Video is only up until end of March 😅

From 3:40 to 11:15 😁
https://youtu.be/h11VesPV3LU

#香港新滋味 #法比歐跟著法比歐一起探訪鐵粉及在地人的私房景點，尋找在亞洲的第二個家：香港，首集我們來到了集大自然美景及文創小店的 #西貢，這裡有「香港後花園」的美稱，跟著法比歐品嚐中西融合的...

21/01/2022

Sai Kung Adventures
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Last year, I had the pleasure of showing some of the cool spots in for . We didn’t only go and see some of the wonderful that had been created for the festival 2021, such as this cool mural by , but we also went for a and tasting and created our own candles at marvelous local .

What a fun day out ✨.

Thanks so much and the amazing crew for all their great work of planning and filming our little Sai Kung adventure 🙏🏻.

The show is called “New Taste of Hong Kong” and starts airing tonight at TLC Asia.
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01/01/2022

Happy New Year everyone 🥳🎊🍾.

May the new year be filled with good health and many joyful, happy moments and experiences ✨✨✨.

Here in Hong Kong the new year definitely started out well with sweet fireworks over the 😊.

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08/05/2021

I haven’t posted on this account for ages. It was not because there was nothing going on in the street art world of Hong Kong but because there was too much going on in Hong Kong and the world in general, so laying off social media seemed like a good idea.

But I figured there is no better event than this year’s HKWalls festival to breath some fresh air into this account and Wanderlust Walks Hong Kong.

The festival will start today, May 8th, and will run until May 16th, taking place in Sai Kung. For details check out .

For impressions of the festival check my stories and posts over the next couple of days.

For everyone in Hong Kong who is interested in going on a tour with Wanderlust Walks, I’ll start running tours again by mid-June (if the situation allows). Also due to Covid, I’ll only run private tours and the number of people in a group can’t be more than 4 (including me, the guide). More about the upcoming tours towards the end of May in a post.

My pic of the day is one of my favorite murals from the festival. created a retro-futuristic look of Hong Kong which after two years in HK’s humid weather is still looking fab.
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