Island Altars is a small collection of photographs created around Hong Kong and Lamma Island. I was drawn to the shrines and altars that adorn shop entrances, homes, and pathways across the island - small, intimate spaces of devotion tucked into everyday life.

These altars became points of pause on my walks, places where the spiritual and the ordinary coexist. I was interested in how these sites hold meaning for the people who care for them, and how devotion can be both public and deeply personal. Each shrine felt like a miniature landscape of ritual, memory, and care, connecting the physical environment with human presence.

Through photographing these spaces, I wanted to capture not only their aesthetic and material qualities, but also their atmosphere, the quiet traces of prayer, offering, and attention that mark each place as sacred. Island Altars is an exploration of how devotion can inhabit unexpected corners of the world, inviting reflection, stillness, and connection amidst the everyday.