The Star Ferry
Statement of Intent
For HK$2 you can climb aboard the Star Ferry at Pier 7 in Central, Hong Kong and embark on a journey that has despite the marching of time and modernization has remained remarkably untouched in decades.
The Star Ferry was the one thing I wanted to do when originally came to Hong Kong on a short business trip – if I did nothing else I had to tick it off my bucket list. Now some seven years later I still take the ferry on a regular basis, and I am still as happy as I was the first day I sailed across the harbour. The ferry is to everything about Hong Kong that I love. For five years I lived stones through away and it would often be the starting point for me on many a day out.
The Star Ferry that it is living museum, a ferry runs from 6 am to 11 pm only stopping for typhoons, not matter how many passengers there are. Even though this is no longer the only way to cross the harbor it is still as relevant now as it was then.
I once said happiness was getting onboard the star ferry, coffee in hand, and setting off on the short seven-minute journey across the harbour. There is peace and tranquillity on the ferry, even at the busiest times, that you cannot experience any other form of transport.
Life on the ferry moves at a different pace; there are details to take in, free air to breathe, there is personal space that you never feel on the MTR (Hong Kong’s underground); these images are an attempt to show the peace I feel every time I step on the ferry.
These images were taken back in 2016, and while putting together this post, I am filled with nostalgia. The Star Ferry is something that I still miss since moving on from Hong Kong. I think that is because no journey on The Star Ferry ever failed to be unique.
