Photographer Austin Bell documented all 2,549 outdoor basketball courts in Hong Kong, creating the series SHOOTING HOOPS. Using a drone and Google Maps, he captured the courts' vivid colors and geometric designs from an aerial perspective over 140 days of shooting, sometimes photographing hundreds in a single day.
The project offers a unique, often people-less portrait of Hong Kong's urban landscape, highlighting the importance of public recreational spaces within a dense metropolis. It transforms mundane infrastructure into artistic subject matter, revealing patterns and a sense of place unseen from the ground, and reflects on the obsessive drive to comprehensively map a city's specific feature.