About the Project
Tracing the entangled colonial histories of Hong Kong and London, this ongoing series follows the geography of colonial memory across the two cities’ cemeteries and memorials. In London, I photograph the graves of former Hong Kong governors — men I grew up with as street names — scattered and often neglected across the city’s burial grounds.
Alongside them are the sites commemorating the Chinese merchant navy crew who died in the Thames during the Second World War: when the tanker M.V. Arinia was mined near the estuary in 1940, her British crew were named at London’s Tower Hill Memorial while her forty Chinese crew were commemorated separately, nine thousand kilometres away in Hong Kong.
Moving between these divided sites, the work asks how a shared death is split, and whose names are kept close while others are sent away.
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