Title: THE UNSPEAKABLE
Photographer(s): Chan Long Hei
Writer(s): Dung Kai Cheung, Alfred Ko Chi-Keung, CHAN Long Hei
Designer(s): Siu Ding
Publisher(s): Soft D Press, Hong Kong
Year: 2020
Print run: 1000
Language(s): English, Chinese
Pages: 170
Size: 22 X 27 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Edition:
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Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Hong Kong, 2019
ISBN: 978-988-78536-1-9
Except for a brief period after he was wounded by a water cannon, photojournalist Chan Long-hei has rarely missed a protest since they began in mid-2019 in Hong Kong. From the start, he has embraced one simple goal: get one more shot, get one more image of the truth. In the second half of 2019, he faced a different protest schedule each day – even the protestors who consider themselves the movement’s “fearless” have not been able to guarantee they will be at every protest. Yet journalists are capable of great persistence and of hitting the streets daily. Apart from this being a professional necessity, what drives them forward to an even greater extent is something that cannot be expressed in words, something “unspeakable.”