“It’s not only a private place to snap self-portraits, but a public space to hold parties,” she said. Within the time frame, they can take all the photos they want.Ĭolorful sticks decorate the wall in the reception area, where Wong, in a tartan jacket, with legs curled beneath her, lounged on the sprawling sofa, speaking enthusiastically. Each studio has a fixed, digital single-lens reflex camera and a screen, where clients may snap away, undisturbed, to their heart’s content.įees are based on the time they’re in the studio. Snaparty consists of a reception room and three, five-square-meter studios, designed to create different atmospheres and settings. The studio sits in a bazaar-like atmosphere thriving with sellers of goldfish, second-hand books, sneakers and other paraphernalia sweeping a wide spectrum of curiosities and lifestyle goods. Wong’s studio is in Hong Kong’s most congested shopping district, Mong Kok. They’re good at digital technology, emphasizing “instant interaction” and “24/7 availability”, says a report by the Hong Kong Ideas Centre, a non-governmental organization.
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Most customers of Snaparty are post-90s kids - tech-smart young people, still in school, growing up in the information age, coming into full blossom.
“They come to celebrate birthdays, reunions or even the end of a semester, then share their photos on Facebook or Instagram,” she continued. Snaparty offers its selfie-obsessed clients a plenitude of hats, masks, period costumes, props, accessories and background settings that are perfect for projecting a mood, a sense of occasion, or simply the declaration of a personal statement, Wong told China Daily. It’s a part of the lifestyle of the post-90s generation.” Even US President Barack Obama has been caught snapping selfies here and there. That’s right, selfie studio, as Wong describes it, a studio that provides the “essential elements of creativity, limited only by the imagination of our clients” - people swept up in the fashion, if not the passion of snapping photos of themselves, wherever they go, whatever they do, usually on their smartphones. She headed home and shared her inspiration with Ellen Chan, her tech-savvy friend, and together, they opened Snaparty, Hong Kong’s “selfie studio”. Wong, 24, on her visit to France two years ago, discovered something so amusing and inspiring that she knew she must bring it home to Hong Kong. Yet, the coming-of-age odyssey of Vien Wong was cut short. It was to be the trip of a lifetime - a grand tour of Continental Europe, fashionable among the offspring of well-to-do Hong Kong families after graduation. As Sylvia Chang reports, their goal, besides financial satisfaction, is to bring happiness to people’s lives. Hong Kong’s tech-savvy generation has gone one step further with the city’s renowned entrepreneurial spirit, jumping on the selfie-studio bandwagon.
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