From Tsuen Wan

This photographic base was shot in Hong Kong Subway.

Printed on Fine Art Hahnemühle Hemp Natural Line 290 g/m2.

Each print comes signed and numbered. 

Unframed. With a small white border. Send in a tube.

Print size 90 x 75 cm - Edition of 10

Print size 60 x 50 cm - Edition of 10.

Print size 30 x 25 cm - Edition of 10.
Print size 10,5 x 14,8 cm (DIN A6) - Open Edition.

A Seat Between Continents and Seconds.

From Tsuen Wan feels like a quiet snapshot that asks more questions than it answers. A solitary passenger in the neon-lit Hong Kong subway, absorbed in a private ritual—counting moments or scrolling through the infinity of the digital void. His olive-green jacket resembles a field camp, while his bag confronts us patriotically: the American flag stands out like a broken sentence against the endless, sterile white of the metro. A little like a joke no one bothered to tell.

What makes this image extraordinary isn’t what we see but what we miss: a silent cinema filled with sounds. The door stands open—yet no one enters or exits. The space barely breathes. Instead, we peer through the gaping doorway into a crowded car, condensed like a collage of faces and colors not meant for us. It’s as if the photographer has reached into the vacuum between motion and stillness—where commuters become extras and the world rumbles forward on an invisible track.

The composition recalls the works of the New Topographics—detached, documentary, yet filled with absurd beauty. Like Stephen Shore and Edward Hopper before him, Thomas Haensgen captures the poetry of loneliness in the public sphere. The lingering question remains: does the space feel colder because it’s empty or because the life within it seems so incidental? One man. One flag. One subway. From Tsuen Wan is a quiet portrait of a world that no longer listens to itself.