Liam Wong is a Scottish photographer, art director and former video game developer from Edinburgh, now based in Japan. He studied Computer Arts at Abertay University in Dundee, then moved to Canada and worked as an artistic director at Ubisoft Montreal. In 2017 Forbes named him in its 30 Under 30 list.
In December 2015 he bought his first DSLR, a Canon 5D Mark III, for a trip to Tokyo. One photograph from that month, a taxi driver in the rain, caught the attention of his friends, and he has photographed Tokyo at night ever since. The series became TO:KY:OO, published by Volume and Thames & Hudson in 2019 with words by Hideo Kojima and Syd Mead. It became the largest crowdfunded book in the UK.
His second book, After Dark (Thames & Hudson, 2022), takes the same nights to other cities, among them Seoul, Hong Kong and his hometown Edinburgh. As a graphic designer he builds his pictures on three things, “content, composition and color”, and names Saul Leiter, Fan Ho and Christopher Doyle among his references.
