details

2024
A5 portrait, 56 pages
Self-designed and published
£10
@decphotos

artist

Declan Driver is a London-based photographer whose work centres around architecture, cites and the built environment. He studied photography at London College of Communication and Fine Art at the University of Westminster. His long term personal projects explore urban systems and the infrastructure and architecture of logistics. He lives and works in London.

publication

+8HRS is a photographic diary from a trip to Hong Kong in late 2023. Declan is fascinated by Hong Kong, the layers and juxtaposition of old and new, rich and poor coexisting together in such a small space. ‘Hong Kong is exciting, it’s alive and mysterious,’ he says.

Declan adds: ‘Hong Kong is difficult to photograph as it has been heavily documented by some absolutely brilliant photographers over the years and it’s also very photogenic. The biggest challenges are letting go of what you’ve already seen, at the same time not falling into neon tourist traps!’

The work in +8HRS is a mix of images from larger ongoing personal projects surrounding construction, growth and change. It is also part of a series of zines in which he sees each zine as a standalone chapter.

‘I love zines and zine making, I love how they have no set format or rules, from skateboarding to feminism, they are for and by everyone.’