In Focus: Profile of Wing Shya
By Leanne Mirandilla
Portrait of WING SHYA. Courtesy the artist and Shanghai Center of Photography.
To reach photographer Wing Shya’s studio, Shya-La-La Workshop, we piled into a loading lift and ascended to the upper floors of an old industrial building on the eastern end of Hong Kong Island. When we set foot in the workshop’s converted warehouse unit, Shya was in the midst of having his portrait photo taken—smoke was coiling to the ceiling from a cigarette in a nearby ashtray; the lights were dimmed. The photographer looked as though he could be the subject of one of his own signature atmospheric shots.
