Hi there, I am Theodoric Wong.
Born in Hong Kong, educated in the UK. I would describe myself as ‘With a Hong Kong mentality mixed with western creative thinking.’
As Hong Kong is such a busy and compact society, moving to Hong Kong gave me a lot of opportunities to explore converting my hobby into my career. With my degree and work experiences in interior, architectural and spatial design, combined with my work experiences from the root of photography up, I can quickly engage with the space I am shooting, getting into the creative mind of the clients and designers and visualise it with photography for them. The next step would be to take this 3D space into a 2D image with graphical composition, and technical lighting with the right styling, I aim to accent elements and details which bring the space together. Finally with photo retouching, giving images the final touch in creating authentic photos that people can connect with.
I no longer see photography merely as a hobby or a career. I see it as a lifestyle. Everything I see, I touch or people I interact with can expand my knowledge in different areas, eventually be part of a creative solution to a brief, this could be now or in the future. This is also why I don’t constrain myself into only doing interior photography, but I see myself as a 'lifestyle photographer’, bringing different aspects of my living into my photography work, specialising not only in interior but also food and beverages, products and antiques, arts and sculptures. With this way of living, I no longer work on my own, no matter if it is an experience with my team or from past conversations with an Uber driver I’ve met, all aspects of my life may help identify a possible problem quickly, sooner it is solved, better results are achieved.
No satisfaction is greater than knowing a client is satisfied with the final images and knowing the audience is connected to the space or product through my image. But most importantly, we, as a team, connected and exchanged a little knowledge and experiences, solving a brief that brings us all forward together, which is also the reason I’ve named my photography studio - “Rocketeer Workshop”.