Meet the Photographer Who Has Documented Over 4,000 Basketball Courts Worldwide and Is Still Counting
Austin Bell, a photographer originally from North Carolina whose work turns ordinary urban surfaces into something close to abstract art.
He is best known for a project that began in 2017 when he first visited Hong Kong and noticed how the city’s outdoor basketball courts stood out against the vertical density—flat, brightly colored, and almost hidden among the buildings. Over four winter visits and roughly 140 days of shooting, he used a drone to photograph all 2,549 outdoor basketball courts across Hong Kong, often capturing more than a hundred in a single day. The series, Shooting Hoops, became a photobook and an exhibition at Blue Lotus Gallery, and the images read like concrete crop circles—geometric, saturated, and strangely beautiful from above.
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