Hong Kong bar maestro Jay Khan swaps cocktails for cameras for his first photo exhibition
Jay Khan of Coa and The Savory Project compares mixology and photography as his first photography exhibition opens at Sin Sin Fine Art
As the force behind two of Hong Kong’s most revered craft cocktail bars – Coa and The Savory Project – Jay Khan is kept busy enough with his day, or rather, night job and is perhaps one of the last people you would expect to get a side gig.
However, as a self-described “very restless person”, he got one anyway.
In March, less than six years after buying his first camera in 2020, he unveiled his first-ever photography exhibition, “Pouring Shadow”, at Sin Sin Fine Art, an independent gallery in Hong Kong’s Wong Chuk Hang neighbourhood.
What few people know is that his interest in photography started before he launched these popular cocktail joints. In fact, there is a sense of coming full circle between his bartending and photography.