Posts tagged street

【SHARED】The last ones standing: Inside Hong Kong’s disappearing newsstands

As at Dec. 31, 2018, only 386 newsstands were left from the 1,005 that existed in the ’90s. Newspaper hawkers believe that the industry is vanishing.

Sociological scholar Chong Yuk-sik, who published her thesis “The Newsstands at the Street Corner” in 2010, has been investigating the culture and history of the city’s licensed newsstands.

Shared Article, CultureWe Are HKers26 November 2020apple daily, newsstands, newspapers, news, national security law, jimmy lai, street, streets, traditional, tradition, industryComment

【Video】Lee Kin Ming | Repairing, evolving and circulating Hong Kong fonts

Lee Kin Ming is the founder of ‘Li Hon’s street calligraphy conservation project’. He has worked in his father’s signage shop since young and has recently started to digitise Mr Lee Hon’s calligraphy and has started a crowdfund. He wrote the book Looking at Hong Kong’s Signage to record Hong Kong’s signage history.

Video, Arts, Culture, HistoryWe Are HKers23 November 2020lee kin ming, fonts, typography, art, create, li hon, calligraphy, calligrapher, conservation, street, sign, signboard, design, designer, history, tradition, traditional, characters, chinese, language, mehporpor, zucchhi, crazy man, lazyass, just.production, sam, firefly, onehungrycoconut, jmComment

【SHARED】Nicolas Petit | ‘We write our future,’ Belgian street photographer tells Hongkongers

To Hongkongers, shopping at wet markets, crossing the Victoria Harbor by ferry, or gobbling up at a cha chaan teng (Hong Kong-style café) are just day-to-day activities that hardly deserve any attention. But to Nicolas Petit, who runs a street photography project called The Hongkongers (IG: @thehongkongers), these mundanities are exactly what make up a unique Hong Kong.

Shared Article, Culture, Hobbies, VideoWe Are HKers29 October 2020nicolas petit, belgian, belgium, street, photographer, photography, future, expat, goldfish tank, goldfish dream, wet markets, market, instagram, foreigner, apple dailyComment