Stretching His Wings

Wing Shya, the legendary Hong Kong director who gained fame as Wong Kar-wai’s set photographer, has launched a collection of more than 1,000 NFTs of classic Hong Kong movie scenes

By Zabrina Lo.

Wing Shya is a man of few words but myriad emotions. The aesthetics and shoot idea for every photography project that he has worked on is determined by “the mood of the day”, he says. That includes his latest decision to jump into the world of NFTs. “I have a feeling that this [Web3 era] is the direction that the industry is moving towards,” he says. It is this instinct that led the fashion, film and art photographer and graphic designer to launch his first NFT project, Cryptyques, the first such in the world to focus on classic Hong Kong movies. Based on the theme “desire”, Shya selected 1,320 scenes from Hong Kong films of the 1980s, including Patrick Tam’s 1981 thriller Love Massacre, the 1989 romance drama My Heart…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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