IMAGES OF RESISTANCE
A Visual Essay
Umbrella 2.0 - The Second Meaning
墨式Ztain
CONNECTIVES
Social Collectivity
Symbols
Umbrella
VICTORIA PARK VIGIL 2020
Hongkongers defy police ban to commemorate Tiananmen Massacre victims at Victoria Park on June 4th, 2020
Photo: Dominic Chiu.
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Collective Memory
Diffuse Power
Fearless Speech
Social Collectivity
Symbols
Graffiti in the Streets of Hong Kong
- I’m happy that I resist with you
- me too
CONNECTIVES
Creative Power
Slogans - Shout
Strategies of the Oppressed
Comparison between demonstrators’ gear in 2014 and 2019
Source: South China Morning Post
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Creative Power
Strategies of the Oppressed
Symbols
Umbrella
Time / Terror on the MTR
@Viroraptor
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Social Collectivity
State Violence
Strategies of the Oppressed
Student Boycott
On September 2019 thousands of university and school students boycotted the first day back to classes to back up the movement.
Photo credit: AP
CONNECTIVES
Fearless Speech
Slogans - Shout
State Violence
Students
Symbols
Crimson June
賴品妤
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Censorship and Erasure
State Violence
Symbols
ARRESTEES SHOUTING OUT THEIR NAMES
CONNECTIVES
Censorship and Erasure
Slogans - Shout
Social Collectivity
State Violence
Strategies of the Oppressed
Every year 10/1, we will only remember this shot
Yu～
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Censorship and Erasure
Collective Memory
State Violence
Breaking into the Legislative Council
Photo Credit: 報導者 The Reporter
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Creative Power
Fearless Speech
Social Collectivity
Strategies of the Oppressed
Symbols
Umbrella
Blackout
Author: Ip Pui Pui
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Censorship and Erasure
Creative Power
Strategies of the Oppressed
Lennon Wall
CONNECTIVES
Creative Power
Fearless Speech
Global & Local
Collective Memory
Slogans - Shout
Social Collectivity
Strategies of the Oppressed
Symbols
Paper Over the Cracks
Giraffe Leung Lok-hei
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Censorship and Erasure
Creative Power
Collective Memory
Strategies of the Oppressed
Light hiding in the dark
Jaffe Tse
CONNECTIVES
Creative Power
Slogans - Shout
Lady Liberty Hong Kong
Photo Credit: Studio Incendo
Lady Liberty was a 3-metre statue designed collectively by users from the LIHKG forum. The original statue is currently missing but 3D models are freely available online.
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Creative Power
Global & Local
Social Collectivity
Symbols
Yellow Raincoat
Bowie Martyr and united artists
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Creative Power
Fearless Speech
Slogans - Shout
Strategies of the Oppressed
Symbols
Set alight and paint-splattered lion and graffiti outside HSBC Headquarters, Central, Hong Kong, 1 January 2020
Photo Credit: John Batten
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Global & Local
Collective Memory
Non-Verbal Communication
Slogans - Shout
Symbols
Umbrella Tactics
Photo Credit: Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha
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Creative Power
Fearless Speech
State Violence
Strategies of the Oppressed
Umbrella
Hong Kong Protest Signs - “Funeral of Freedom”
Photo credit: Reuters
CONNECTIVES
Fearless Speech
Slogans - Shout
Social Collectivity
Strategies of the Oppressed
Anti-ELAB Protest, 12 June 2019
Anonymous artist
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Creative Power
Collective Memory
Social Collectivity
Umbrella
Anti-ELAB banner, 1 July 2019
Anonymous artist
CONNECTIVES
Fearless Speech
Slogans - Shout
Social Collectivity
Strategies of the Oppressed
A YOUNG COUPLE ON A BICYCLE HIDE FROM CHINESE SOLDIERS IN A TANK OVERHEAD DURING THE TIANANMEN SQUARE PROTESTS
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Censorship and Erasure
Collective Memory
Fearless Speech
Social Collectivity
State Violence
Strategies of the Oppressed
Symbols
We Never Forget
Anonymous artist
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Creative Power
Fearless Speech
Collective Memory
State Violence
Strategies of the Oppressed
Symbols
Laser Pointers
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Censorship and Erasure
Creative Power
Non-Verbal Communication
Social Collectivity
Strategies of the Oppressed
Hong Kong Lady Justice Final Sale
Photo Credit: Yvette Wong Lok Yee
CONNECTIVES
Creative Power
Fearless Speech
Global & Local
Social Collectivity
Symbols