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【Video】Dare Media | Putting a price tag on publicity: Yell Card as a new form of collective expression

Vivian and her partners founded Dare Media in August 2019. Her team’s project ‘Yell Card’ produces trading cards of protest-related artwork drawn by different designers, promoting the commercialization of political art and graphic designs. Aiming to support designers financially as well as produce trading cards for physical records of the protest movement, the new editions of Yell Card are...

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【Video】Calif Chong | Filmmaker—Creating a collective database and capturing the Hong Kong spirit

Calif Chong is a filmmaker currently based in the UK. She worked as a scriptwriter at TVB and a documentarian for RTHK. A few years ago, she began her studies in Europe and started her career in the film industry, with the aim of finding a new way to tell the story of Hong Kong.

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Organic Greenfield | Agriculture is an integral part of Hong Kong

Organic Greenfield, an extension of ‘Kong Yeah‘, is an organisation that advocates ‘Community Supported Agriculture’. Ho Ying and Nicole run the organisation and in 2017 they introduced the Organic Greenfield CSA Project. They have been devoted to building long-term cooperative ties with local farmers and producers, as well as playing a bridging role between them and the citizens.....

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【Video】Lindsay Varty | Author of Sunset Survivors – “Don’t forget why you love Hong Kong!"

Lindsay is a half-British, half-Macanese writer, journalist and a former professional rugby player raised in Hong Kong. As the award-winning author of Sunset Survivors, a book that tells the tales of Hong Kong’s traditional tradespeople, Lindsay lives and breathes Hong Kong and is fascinated by its culture and history. She now gives talks and runs local walking tours that focus on the subject of her book.

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【Video】William Leung | The reality of the community through a public housing photographer’s lens

William is a fan of public housing who grew up there in the 80s. For over 20 years, he has visited the 200-some public housing estates in Hong Kong, documenting their change through his camera lens. He exhibits his work through his Facebook page “Hong Kong Public Housing Image Collection.” His photography has also been published as a book, titled Across Villages: A Kind of Housing Sentiment. His photography has received numerous prestigious awards, including an Honorable Mention from the People category of National Geographic’s 2019 Photo Contest.

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【Video】Anthony Fan | Recording and Reflecting on History and Societal Changes Through Portraits

Anthony Fan is currently a full-time photographer. His photography journey began when he was in his second year of surveying studies at the University of Hong Kong where he started off taking portraits of fellow hall mates and guests in his student residence. He has remained curious about people and reads public figures’ biographies and interviews. He shoots for publications and advertisements and also works on personal photography projects. He is recently holding a personal photography exhibition ‘My Portrait Dairy - 18 Children’ * .

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Emily Tong | Sham Shui Po’s must-eats from an experienced food editor

Emily is an experienced food editor and proud Sham Shui Po resident of more than 40 years. She previously worked for Weekend Weekly, and is currently a freelancer and occasional PR representative for restaurants. Emily’s food journey includes bringing chefs and foodies from all over the world to food hunting in Sham Shui Po.

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Polly | Swiss graphic designer - "As a paper-lover, I love how Hongkongers go back to paper for communication and promotion."

I think people in my country don't really understand how important Hongkongers’ fight is. As Switzerland is one of the most democratic countries in the world, freedom to us is like ‘air’, we are born with it - it is taken for granted. So I was wondering what I could do in an artistic way to help them understand.

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