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This chapter explores how urban scenes are haunted, via an exploration of the street markets at Sham Shui Po. Here, the discussion takes a more reflexive term, focusing on what is meant by a hauntological approach to street photography. We see how normative experience engenders its own counter experience. At the street markets at Sham Shui Po, we see thriving pedestrian streets and vendors with their goods. As the street photographs will show, we have learnt to not see the gloomy store displays, empty stalls and wry expressions on faces.
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Tay, E. (2022). Street Markets of Sham Shui Po: Going on a Dérive. In: Hong Kong as Creative Practice. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21362-5_4
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