
When I submitted a photograph that I’d taken of a piece of shutter art in the racy, party district of Lan Kwai Fong in Central, Hong Kong, little did I dream that some months later, the photograph would appear in the glossy pages of a coffee table book. Murals, created by the co-founders of the wonderfully eclectic literary journal, The Hooghly Review and curated by multi-talented writer, François Bereaud, began its existence in print thanks to Press Pause Press, an apologetically zero-social media literary magazine. The other delightful discovery was that my photograph had been paired with the luminous poetry of a dear friend, activist, gemologist and accomplished poetess, Shikha Sawhney Lamba. Find us both, and many others, in the pages of this singular, visually provocative, limited run publication (available to purchase at this link).



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