In his first personal photography project, Wong Chung Wai paints a portrait of a city he loves but has left behind
ver 150,000 visas were granted by December 2022, and it’s estimated that estimated 320,000residents will immigrate to the UK in a five-year period. One such resident is the photographer. With a background in film , he picked up photography in 2020. Before leaving Hong Kong, he embarked on what was effectively a farewell tour of the city he’d grown up in, grieving it and saying goodbye.
WCW: My parents were both school teachers in a small rural village in Canton province. They left China with the wish of being able to make decisions for their own career and their own lives. It took a few days for them to walk from their village to the China-Hong Kong border. At midnight, while the guards rotated positions, my parents went into the water of Shenzhen Bay and swam across the water into Hong Kong.
parent’s decision 40 years ago. However, I felt sad and disappointed when I left. I believe my parents felt more hopeful and positive back then.WCW: It was complicated. I felt heartbroken, with self-doubt, but I was stubborn enough to make this decision and carry on.WCW: Sometimes I struggle, sometimes I feel joyful. I believe these feelings will stay with me for my whole life.WCW: Tough question. I think now I see the whole world very differently. I feel like I am an outsider here and there.
TS: One of my favourite things about Hong Kong is the nature; how it invades the city, unlike other metropolises like London or New York. The mountains, the sea, the banyan trees, the bauhinia flowers ... It’s so beautiful, particularly when it all merges with the concrete of the buildings and roads.
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