Very impressive work & precious records by one of the finalists in this year's WMA Masters Exhibition - Billy H.C.Kwok: Photojournalist , who chose to highlight refugees' life in metropolitan Hong Kong.
A highly recommended exhibition on the topic 'Mobility' which digs through different social issues/facets of Hong Kong.
2017 WMA Masters Exhibition 大師攝影獎作品展「動」Mobility
- running until 6 May, at Comix Home Base at Wancai.
【 WMA 大師攝影作品展2017 #WMA Masters Exhibition 2017】
入圍攝影師 Finalists ： Billy H.C.Kwok: Photojournalist - 《從過渡到新生》 "From Transit to New Lives"
此長期項目記錄了全球最發達城市之一－－香港的避難者現狀，從他們在香港過渡到收容國的這段時間，透視香港獨有的社會景像，以至探索全球人口流動的趨勢。
香港匯聚了來自四面八方的避難者，輾轉來到離本國幾千公里外的地方－－香港－－一個想像中發達文明的自由之地，期望在此「中轉站」通過難民身份審批，尋求到第三國定居。然而年月過去，避難者一直被困國家之間，在搖搖欲墜的閃爍霓虹燈下，等待著「命運的發落」。
This project unfolds the social landscapes of refugees' mobility and relationships during their transit period in Hong Kong to their final destination, as an ongoing inquiry into the contradictions within one of the most developed metropolitan cities in the world.
Every year, thousands of asylum seekers escape their countries in the hope of receiving state support as refugees. Fleeing from their homelands, some transit through the glittering metropolitan city - Hong Kong, to reach their final destinations, such as the United States, Canada, and New Zealand.
As a check point, however, as Hong Kong has no domestic legislation to grant refugees temporary or permanent status nor to resettle them. Most of the people strive to establish new lives in a transitory locale, end up stranded in Hong Kong for years on end, and some of them are still waiting to move to begin their new lives. Their mobility is challenged by their stranded condition, but remains active, however restricted.
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2017 WMA Masters Exhibition 大師攝影獎作品展「動」Mobility
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