Believe in what you see ... F#@k what you hear.
- Z
- Jun 19, 2019
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 3, 2019
I don't exactly know why I am launching my site now, it's probably the worse time to launch anything right now? To be honest too, this is probably gonna be the worse first blog post to start on this photo blog journey, and I really hope this will not set a tone for what's to follow ...
But ... I got to tell ya ... I don't know what else I can do?
with our world on this side of the planet balancing on a pins head right now, seeing our society splitting like the Red Sea, seeing our citizens hurting each other, seeing some succumbing to and accepting the inevitability, seeing people cracking under this immense tension and pressure, seeing police doing things they don't want to do to the people they are doing it to, seeing protesters fighting, bleeding, but at the same time bewildered at what they have done, seeing same sided arguments between friends and families, the left and the right, the right and the wrong? What are we doing? What the hell can I do? How can I help?
I am feeling hopeless and lost, I am for the peaceful protest, but not the violence, especially not between people who both love what Hong Kong stands for. I wasn't born in Hong Kong, (but why should that matter anyways?) I have a passionate HKer wife, I have very Hong Kong spirited parents and families, this is my root. All of these people in and have became my life is what matters to me.
What matters is I have been working as a photographer in Hong Kong and China for the last 15+ years, I have been a quiet observer through my lens into both worlds, I have experienced the rising and the falling to see the good and the ugly in both places. Both are amazing, absolutely beautiful places, but both have their weaknesses ... Yes! Some much worse than others.
Like I mentioned, I don't know why ... Now!? But I want to do something, I need to do something, to back my society, my culture! I have participated in the peaceful protests, I have seen the searing stares from the police force, I have heard the cries of the young. I have had policeman and woman, all dressed in black with helmets and shields staring me down, calculating in their heads, gauging whether I am a threat, I have taken photos that I don't feel comfortable and don't agree I should post to add more hurt, hate, anger, sadness, frustration, and blood ... ... It's been over a month, some would say years!
I am so so sick of it!!! 🤯 it's being escalated fast! It's breaking point!
The only thing I could think of is ... maybe ... through this photo journey, I could share my ups and downs and my every day life StoryZ through the images I have captured over the years both in China, Hong Kong, and even the other parts of the world that my career has led me to. Give people an insight into what it's really like on the ground, through the people I have met and the images that I have collected.
I don't know where this journey will lead, Netizens ... Please be kind. Feel free to ask any questions ... and most of all please be kind, empathetic and decent to each other!
Like my loving wife says, you be you, let them be them, tell your storyz, it's a part of you
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