6000人（其中大部分是母親，手持黑色康乃馨，身穿黑衣）參加反對警暴和「反送中」修例靜坐，於2019年6月14日逼爆了中環遮打花園。有人高舉「不要槍殺我們的孩子」 、「母親很堅強」等標語牌。 6月12日，警察使用催淚彈、布袋彈和橡膠子彈向年輕的示威者暴力清場。
本攝影師入選《時代革命攝影展》的2張照片之一。這是一個多城市攝影展覽，分享了多個實地攝影記者的作品，涵蓋了香港2019年的「反送中」抗議活動。該展覽旨在闡明遠超傳統媒體報道的頭條新聞及故事。
我們快速發展的全球媒體環境趨向於清除細微差別，掩蓋複雜性，從而提供可消化的少量信息。《時代革命攝影展》通過探討各種主題來涵蓋複雜性，這些主題包括：警察干預、控制和影響，權力在社會中的作用和使用，歷史悠久的文化撕裂，宣傳，領導和復原力的作用以及破壞對一個社會的日常生活的影響。
《時代革命攝影展》致力於通過照片、文物、藝術品和故事，使香港市民重要的抗爭和現實，帶到世界各主要城市分享。顯而易見，儘管距離遙遠，文化鴻溝和歷史不同，但我們都渴望擁有一系列人權價值觀，而少數勇敢和堅毅的人願意為此而奮鬥。
我們邀請您暫時走出你的世界片刻，進入我們在香港的街頭，體驗我們的時代革命。
多邊形畫廊 Polygon Gallery，加拿大卑詩省北温哥華市 101 Carrie Cates Ct，V7M 3J4 | 2020年1月16-26日
攝影記者對談| 2020年1月22日晩上7-9時
6,000 people – most of them mothers, dressed in black holding carnations – joined in a sit-in against police brutality and the China extradition law – completely filled Chater Garden in Central on 14 June 2019. Some raised “Don’t shoot our kids”, “Mother is Strong” and other placards. On 12 June, police violently cleared the young protesters using tear gas, bean bags and rubber bullets.
One of 2 images of this photographer that are included in the Revolution of Our Times (RooT), a multi-city photographic exhibition sharing the collective work of photojournalists who were on the ground, covering the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Protests in Hong Kong. The exhibition seeks to illuminate stories and ideas that go far beyond the headlines of conventional media coverage.
Our fast moving global media environment tends to purge nuance, and gloss over complexity, in favor of delivering small digestible bits of information. Revolution of Our Times embraces complexity by exploring a variety of themes including: police intervention, control and influence, the role and uses of power in society, cultural division with long histories, the role of propaganda, leadership and resilience, and the effects of disruption to the daily life of a society.
RooT endeavors to share this important body of work by bringing photos, artifacts, artwork, and human stories to major world cities with the goal of making the struggle of the citizens of Hong Kong real, and to put their fight into context. It will quickly become apparent that despite the distance, cultural divide, and differing histories, there are a set of human values for which we all yearn, and a brave and desperate few are willing to fight for.
We invite you to step out of our world for a moment, and join us on the streets of Hong Kong and to experience the Revolution of Our Times.
The Polygon Gallery, 101 Carrie Cates Ct, North Vanvouver, British Columbia, Canada V7M 3J4 | 16-26 Jan 2020
Photojournalist Talk | 22 Jan 2020 7-9 pm
