Let Janice Chan’s (heyjanice) photographs of a Chinese kite festival blow you away The Hong Kong-based, Kiwi architectural designer and photographer Janice Chan sees the sky a lot when she is admiring architecture – of course, so much of it touches the sky. Her work, in her own words, is a collage of “peach sunsets, hot concrete, blue skies, sub-tropical air” – in short, it looks like her photos feel like “fragments collected from a very long holiday”. Part of that eternal holiday is her photographic series Most People Came to Watch the Sky, where the photographer pointed her camera at the annual kite festival in Weifang, China, where thousands of people gather each spring to spend entire afternoons beneath enormous open skies watching giant kites drift overhead. “Although the festival is known for its scale and spectacle, I became more interested in the atmosphere surrounding the event itself and the people who had come simply to watch the sky,” says Janice. “The series focuses on ...