Blue Lotus Gallery is delighted to revisit Shooting Hoops, Austin Bell’s viral and ambitious body of work in which the American photographer documented all 2,549 of Hong Kong’s outdoor basketball courts.

Originally released in January 2025, Shooting Hoops quickly gained international attention for its scale, precision, and striking visual language. In this new exhibition, the series is presented through a fresh curatorial lens, revealing the courts in a more abstract form for the first time.

Navigating Hong Kong exclusively by public transport, Bell methodically traversed the city’s full geographic and social breadth, from dense urban centres to outlying islands. Using aerial photography, he uncovered basketball courts tucked between housing estates, schools, flyovers, and high-rise towers, highlighting both their ubiquity and vivid graphic designs. Seen from above, these courts form bold geometric compositions, bursts of colour set against the city’s famously vertical and compressed urban fabric.

Gallery address: 28 Pound LaneTai Ping Shan, Sheung Wan