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After the Big Green quickly gained an 8-3 lead in the third, Dartmouth displayed crisp ball movement on its next possession. Kip Dooley took a pass in front of the net and put the ball through Krieger’s legs...
...only natural to want to glimpse the lives behind those concrete façades. Wolf addresses this in the companion volume Inside, subtitled OneHundred by OneHundred, which hones in on Shek Kip Mei Estate, Hong Kong's oldest public-housing complex. With the help of a social worker, in April 2007 Wolf gained access to 100 residents of the estate's soon-to-be-demolished Mark I blocks - accommodation of 1950s vintage designed to house the greatest number of people and to be built in the quickest possible time in response to a burgeoning city's housing crisis. He then...
...Wolf's Inside is not the first book to contain such images. In 2007 Hong Kong photojournalist Vincent Yu published Our Home, Shek Kip Mei 1954-2006 - a work that included a collection of formal portraits of estate residents in their cramped dwellings, albeit in black and white. It is hard to see what, if anything, Wolf does differently. His images are not the result of an intimate rapport between photographer and subject, but of an almost unbridgeable distance: the sitters are showing their best face to a foreign visitor, with many of them smiling for the camera. The result...