Hong Kong - Ga Yau
by Marco di Noia

portfolio special mention call 'ABOUT DESIRE. WITH RAGUSA FOTO FESTIVAL 2020', 2020

Hong Kong - Ga Yau is a body of work about the protest movement that shook Hong Kong in 2019, about the desire for freedom that fuelled the events.
The movement was triggered by a proposed law that would have allowed the extraditions to mainland China of Hong Kong citizens, but soon it morphed into a larger revolt against China’s control over the semi-autonomous city. Clashes between riot police and protesters often erupted during rallies and marches calling for democratic freedoms and independent inquiry into the police behaviour. People were walking on the streets, demanding reforms and defending their freedoms and their identity, from what they call a cultural oppression, and a clear attempt to shrink the autonomy that the former British colony had somehow managed to keep up until now.
Protesters are questioning the core of the Sino-British Joint Declaration: the 1997 deal between London and Beijing based on the principle of “one nation - two system”,
a strange architecture meant to preserve Hong Kong lifestyle and freedoms in the framework of a nation ruled by the strong grip of the Chinese Communist party.
The system, if ever was something, is crumbling:
things are changing very fast, and the influence and the policies imposed by Beijing and Xi Jinping’s course are shrinking Hong Kong liberties and shaping the way of life of its population.

Despite the loss in the 2019 District Council elections, the government doesn’t seem to be willing to find any political solution, what has been imposed is de facto a police state at low intensity, brutal and arbitrary arrests are carried out whenever people gather, or try any form of expression of their democratic cause, activists and journalist are more often banned from entering the city, the level of civil rights and freedom is deteriorating and the situation is leaving little hope for the future.


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