Patrick de Talance is a French photographer born in 1973. Since the age of 5, Patrick has been traveling around the world following his family where the next assignment of his father would take him. He started photographing the world from the age of ten, using his mother’s Nikon 35mm camera and learned and developed his photographic skills with the help and support from his parents, from taking the shot to developing it, during his teen years. Having visited various countries at a young age (America’s, Asia and Europe), Patrick educated his eye at exploring cultures and people and extracting the quintessence of what he was witnessing which naturally led him to develop a keen interest in travel, photography and people.

When he came back to Hong Kong in 2008 after more than 25 years away from the city of lights, Patrick decided that in an ever changing continent; it would be interesting to document what he was seeing and experiencing. After five years of sharpening his skills it is now time to share those 5 years of pleasure, curiosity, astonishment experienced in Asia and the rest of the world by inviting you on a journey.

Trip Ticks is about this travel frenzy. All those places we all want to tick on our bucket list. Trip tick is about traveling but mostly stopping to contemplate the world as it goes by, not just ticking places on a map; look beyond the clichés and the tourist attractions. The idea is to share different universes with different views of the world we live in. These universes are five bubbles flying up in time, geography and moods. They are either bright shiny bubbles, bubbles ready to burst or sometimes just imaginary bubbles…

Image: © Patrick de Talance, Culture Club Gallery