1. Develop a responsive attitude towards how lands are being used and disposed for human’s well-being in Hong Kong
2. Express their interpretation of the appropriateness of land use through visual image
3. Demonstrate a refined appreciation of the beauty exist in the human-made environment
4. Manage photographic skills so as to reproduce the scene they have captured in decent details
5. Describe the elements and trend in landscape photography

Week 1: Photographic technique 1

Week 2-3: Art history on New Topographic Photography

Week 4-5: Field work and presentation 1 – a suburb of Hong Kong

Week 6: New Topographic Photography’s Perspective 1

Week 7: Field work 2 – a visit to Central on colonial land use

Week 8: New Topographic Photography’s Perspective 2

Week 9: Presentation on field work 2

Week 10-11: Field work and presentation 3 – human and the environment

Week 12: Tutorial on final presentation

Week 13: Final presentation

1. New Topographics, Britt Salvesen, Steidl & Partners, 2009
2. Reframing the New Topographics, Greg foster-rice etal edit, Center Books on American Places, 2011
3. Cities and Photography, Jane Thomey, Routledge, 2013

1. Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography, Tod Papageorge, Aperture, 2011
2. “Artsy”: artsy.net/gene/topographic-photography