Blank Space Playground is the gardener of the namesake digital garden. Working with media like street photography, illustration, zine-making, and writing, they explore urban environments, socio-cultural phenomena, and the human condition, through the lens of perception and power dynamics.
Exhibitions and appearances
2025
ZINE YO! FEST | ZINE COOP (Hong Kong)
Zines Spectrum and Doppelgängers are exhibited in the section 'City Observation' of the festival organized by ZINE COOP, Hong Kong's first collective and platform of zine culture that is founded in 2017.
Zine Day | Your Local Newsstand (Singapore)
Featured zine Spectrum in an exhibition by Singapore’s independent publisher specializing in photography-based works.
Awards and recognition
2021–24
20 featured images (2021–24) & 10M+ views on Unsplash (account now defunct, achieved July 2024)
2019
Interviews and features
2024
The scene of the signs: Hong Kong shop signs as socio-cultural representations | allcitiesarebeautiful.com
2017
Among Buildings with Iris Leung | VSCO Journal
Self-published zines
2025
The Traum(a)'s Kunstkammer
A visceral exploration of many faces of trauma through a cabinet of curiosities. Blending surreal illustrations, rudimentary physics knowledge, Wikipedia searches, and dark humour, this zine distills agony into 12 eccentric objects.
2024
Doppelgängers
A photographic-illustrative tale of personal stagnation — whether by fate or unconscious choice, and formation of trauma.
Spectrum
A chromatic journey through minimalist architecture photography, celebrating the beauty of the mundane and the art of perception.
Contact
Interested in the themes and subjects this garden explores? Want to collaborate with the gardener? Or just want to say hi? Contact the gardener via email blankspaceplayground [at] protonmail.com. Your message will be reviewed soon.