{"id":488,"date":"2021-02-28T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T07:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=488"},"modified":"2021-03-29T20:38:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T12:38:45","slug":"test-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"First  Prize &#8211; Clean Hong Kong Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-495\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-36-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-495 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"Slideshow\" aria-label=\"New Slideshow\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_495\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_495\">\n            <ul aria-live=\"polite\" class=\"slides\">\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-496 ms-image\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"slide-496\"><img src=\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Clean-HK-Action_re-940x600.png\" height=\"600\" width=\"940\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-495 slide-496\" title=\"Clean HK Action\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Clean Hong Kong Action<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Author: Siu Wai Hang<br>Country: Hong Kong<br>Year: 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-vertical\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Hong Konger, I have participated in social movements as much as I could. As a man who responds to the world with a camera, I felt powerless in the face of Hong Kong\u2019s turbulence. Photography\u2019s ability to document the physical world turns it into a deadly weapon. The protester feared that images of their faces will become a piece of evidence in the authority\u2019s hand. Every time I picked up my camera I was overwhelmed by guilt and fright. I refrained from capturing those faces. Being at once a protester and a photographer, I was caught in a bind.<br><br>My photographs became helpless liabilities. I decided to protect the people by punching holes on their faces, an act also to reinstate the importance of photography in this event, reconciling my role as a protester and a photographer. For and against the people, the gesture of eliminating the faces runs on two extremes. It first functions to prevent people from being recognised in the pictures. It also points to the violence of the power that believes in the value of Hong Kong as a place but not its people. I, therefore, gave the series an ironic title, Clean Hong Kong Action.<br><br>This eponymous book is an extension of its photographic counterpart. The hole-ridden Clean Hong Kong Action mirrors the rotten state of Hong Kong. The photographs, arranged chronologically, are printed on both sides. Events are consequential. A hole on one side became the scar of its reverse. The damage is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-vertical\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Winner of the Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award: Clean Hong Kong Action\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E0iOhS-hfgI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siuwaihang.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visite their website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siu Wai Hang, Hong Kong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>First Prize - Clean Hong Kong Action - The Hong Kong Photobook Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=488\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First Prize - Clean Hong Kong Action - The Hong Kong Photobook Festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Siu Wai Hang, Hong Kong\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=488\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Hong Kong Photobook Festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-28T07:51:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-03-29T12:38:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Clean-HK-Action_re-907x1200.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"907\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=488\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=488\",\"name\":\"First Prize - Clean Hong Kong Action - The Hong Kong Photobook Festival\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-02-28T07:51:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-29T12:38:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/#\/schema\/person\/20557f647a5c2be0200f8ab47e2fe691\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=488#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=488\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=488#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"First Prize &#8211; 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