“I was at a point in my life where I felt disconnected from my culture and my hometown and I had a strong desire to reconnect and rediscover what I felt I had neglected.” “This began as something very personal to me,” she says.

Though she left when she was 11, the London-based fashion and portrait photographer recently felt compelled to return with her camera. Photographer Alexandra Leese has never forgotten Hong Kong the city of her childhood and the locus of cherished memories.