Marcel Heijnen
Dutch photographer Marcel Heijnen has lived in Singapore and Hong Kong for over three decades and today divides his time between Amsterdam and Hong Kong. He is always working on a number of photo series from feline to fine art to everything in between.
He has successfully published distinctive books on shop cats in Hong Kong, China and Istanbul, capturing unique aspects of street life against a background of urbanisation and impermanence.
Also a designer and musician, he is self-taught in everything he does and driven by an enduring curiosity about life and its many layers of meaning.
About the image Fist of Furry
The cover of Marcel’s successful photo book Shop Cats of China, published globally by the renowned art book publisher Thames & Hudson, the photo Fist of Furry not only features a beautiful cat with an intense feline stare but also a typical low wooden stool often seen on Chinese streets.
The photograph was taken in Guangzhou, China, set against a background of texture and
weathering that refers back to the subject matter of Marcel’s fine art series Residue.
