Hi, I'm Milton, a street photographer based in Hong Kong and London. I'm interested in Social Realism and I mostly do street photography, as I love exploring various socio-economical and geo-cultural phenomena within modern society with images. I usually document people and objects of a local area to gain a better understanding of their culture, lifestyle and social structures. I went to study in the UK when I was in 6th form, and after spending most of my adult life so far in the UK, it evoked an eagerness to reflect on myself and my past experiences. As I travel a lot back and forth between Hong Kong and the UK, I also transition western and eastern cultures a lot. Therefore sometimes I get the feeling that I don't truly belong to either of these cultures because the cultural makeup of myself is a blend between the two. This feeling of estrangement highly influences my way of seeing and my photographic style, always wandering in the skin of a voyeur, constantly in need to understand. It made me look at Hong Kong under a different light, instead of seeing it as a mundane city that was my birthplace, I started to see the quirks and characteristics that I was very much oblivious to when I was younger. My most recent projects document aspects of the working culture of the Grass-root community in Hong Kong. It helped me gain insight into the daily struggles and grind to survive in a bustling metropolis like Hong Kong, whilst also reflecting on the effects of unbelievably high housing costs in Hong Kong due to modernisation. I haven’t had very much exposure to these endeavours locals have had to overcome on a daily basis growing up and only after I’ve matured a little is when I woke up and realised the harsh reality of society in the modern era and the results of being trapped in a economic and social disadvantage in a super competitive environment like Hong Kong. Furthermore the grassroots community hasn’t evolved as much in a cultural perspective as the middle and upper class since their exposure to western cultures and media is very limited. Therefore elements of Chinese traditions are more visibly potent than in the more developed and urbanised areas of Hong Kong. The gritty harsh characteristics of the imagery illustrate the flaws in social structures and cruelty of society.