Preston Hartwick is a photographer and multi-disciplinary artist living in Hong Kong. His work frequently takes the form of long-term investigations of his physical surroundings and how they shape the rhythms of life.

His ongoing project, Hong Kong Aesthetic, is a decade-long survey of Hong Kong’s undocumented design — the colors, textures, and patterns that comprise the city’s underlying visual fabric.

Preston was selected as a featured artist for the Inter-Island Festival 2023, where he designed an installation re-interpreting the controversial Lantau Tomorrow Vision reclamation project as a figment of a failed technocratic fantasy.

He self-published his first photobook, Bela Vista, in 2021, chronicling six years of observing the natural rhythms of the ocean, people, and animals viewed from a single window overlooking the beach.

Before this, Preston’s photography and sculptural installations have been featured in multiple exhibitions across Hong Kong. He has an intense love for analog photography and can usually be found in his darkroom experimenting with alternative photographic processes.