HKFP Lens: Hong Kong photographers document their last moments in the city
Non-profit art organisation Lumenvisum is hosting an exhibition titled “Leaving on a Jet Plane: Final Images of Hong Kong by Photographers Who Have Emigrated Recently,” as part of its efforts to set up a visual archive of people’s final scenes in the city as they move overseas.
The exhibition, co-curated by photography historian Edwin Lai and photographer Paul Yeung, is the second edition of Lumenvisum’s “Photographs of History, History of Photographs” series.
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“Leaving on a Jet Plane,” a collective farewell from 31 Hong Kong photographers, will be on display until June 25 at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre in Shek Kip Mei.
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