Photographer Stefan Irvine explored isolated islands and remote hiking trails to document the territory’s abandoned villages.

Lai Chi Wo is one of Hong Kong’s oldest settlements — and one of its most biodiverse. Abandoned in the last century, it became a ghost town. Now, a project is bringing in new residents, and ...

Irvine, who has lived in Hong Kong since 2002, first stumbled across the city’s abandoned villages in 2012 while visiting a friend in the New Territories, a vast area to the city’s north ...