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Austin Bell | Photographing 6,800 Basketball Courts in 28 Countries

Austin Bell shoots basketball courts—thousands of them—mostly from above. Using a drone and a flat-lay approach, he's documented more than 6,500 courts across 28 countries, including every single example to be found across Hong Kong's variegated landscape. In 2024, Bell's self-described "nonchalant obsession" became Shooting Hoops, an exhibition and monograph that maps the city through color, geometry, and concrete.

In today's show—our first full video release in our in-house studio—Austin describes the complex logistics involved in finding and photographing every last court, while also…

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