‘It’s a living organism, a crazy cacophony of life’: Scott A Woodward’s best phone picture

The Canadian photographer on capturing a moment of calm - and a little slice of humanity - at Hong Kong's Monster Building

Nicknamed the Monster Building, the residential complex in Hong Kong's Quarry Bay is actually made up of five imposing tower blocks. In 2018, Canadian photographer Scott A Woodward had set up camp in the shadow of one, the Yick Cheong building, to shoot an ad campaign for Foot Locker. It's a heavy, teeming, living organism; a crazy cacophony of life and colour," he says. There are 10,000 people living there, and people travel from all over to see it."

The team was large and busy, vying for space in the courtyard with tourists and Instagrammers drawn to the building after it featured in the films Transformers: Age of Extinction and Ghost in the Shell. When a break was called on set, Woodward wandered away from the crowd to take a breather.