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A 20+ year collection of photographs documenting Hong Kong's hauntingly beautiful construction sites encaged (cocooned!) in bamboo scaffolding, draped in brightly hued material.

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Peter Steinhauer is an award-winning photographer whose work has been published in the monographs, Vietnam: Portraits and Landscapes (2002) and Enduring Spirit of Vietnam (2007; foreword by Michael Kenna), named Best Photography Book of the Year by PDN. Represented by leading international galleries, his work is held in museums and in private, corporate and embassy collections. Born in Boulder, CO, Steinhauer lived in Asia for 20 years. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. Linda Benedict-Jones is an independent curator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2015, she retired from her role as the first Curator of Photography at Carnegie Museum of Art. Prior to this, she was Executive Director of Silver Eye Center for Photography. She has also served as Curator of Education at The Frick Pittsburgh and she taught courses in the history of photography at Carnegie Mellon University for 18 years, from 1999 to 2017. Before moving to Pittsburgh in 1993, Benedict-Jones was Curator of The Polaroid Collection and director of Polaroid's Clarence Kennedy Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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"Who knew scaffolding could be so mesmerizing?" 
*Architectural Digest*

"An essential document of a sublime secret in urban architecture."
*We Heart*

As seen in: South China Morning Post, CNN, Hyperallergic, Atlas Obscura, Quartz, The Guardian, PDN Photo of the Day, Aspire Design and Home

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