Kurt Tong | 唐景鋒

Family Tetralogy (2007-2013)/The Queen, The Chairman and I (2009-2012) Other Photographic Projects/Patriotic Smoking (2016) Other Photographic Projects/Trust Little in Tomorrow (2014) Family Tetralogy (2007-2013)/In Case it Rains in Heaven (2009) Contact Bio Family Tetralogy (2007-2013)/People's Park (2007-2008) Family Tetralogy (2007-2013)/Memories, Dreams; Interrupted (2009-2010) Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/Axis Mundi CV Other Photographic Projects/Farewell in Labrador (2006) Other Photographic Projects/Instand Snowmen (2009) Other Photographic Projects/In the Still of the Night (2011) Sweet Water, Bitter Earth (2014-2016) Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/Take a breath Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/55 Nights Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/Blossom Tree Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/Nails Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/Ceteris Paribus Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/What Remains Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/Eclipse Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/Compulsive Looking Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/Kurtsalet Prints Echoed Visions (2013-2014)/Overview Other Photographic Projects/22 Steps to the Sea (2008-2010) Combing for Ice and Jade (2011-2018) Books & Interviews/Combing for Ice and Jade Books & Interviews/The Queen, The Chairman and I Books & Interviews/In Case it Rains in Heaven

QCI016

QCI016

After losing the first opium war in 1841, the Qing government agreed to make Hong Kong Island a crown colony, ceding it to the British Queen ‘in perepetuity to provide British traders with a harbour where they could unload their goods’ Lord Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary at the time was less than impressed by the outcome, calling Hong Kong, ‘a barren rock with scarcely a house upon it’.Hong Kong remained a British colony for the next 156 years.

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