TSE Pak-chai

TSE Pak-chai is a photographer whose work has focused on issues of social justice and social change. Tse has documented protests and changes in local communities in Hong Kong for a number of years. He has participated in various projects as a researcher and photographer, and is a founding member of the Hong Kong curatorial collective Community Museum Project, which explores indigenous creativity, visual culture and public culture through the collection and interpretation of artifacts and visual evidence. Major past projects have included Objects of Demonstration (2002) and Street as Museum: Lee Tung Street (2005).

Tse Pak-chai Artist’s Statement:
This series of photographs shows the tram stops along the Central to Causeway Bay line on Hong Kong Island, over the last half of 2019. In many places, the messages written by Hong Kong protestors are being erased by the authorities. These images reveal the struggles happening in a city of high density, against a background of consumerism and capitalism. Someone told me that “these scenes look empty and silent and yet show the presence of people who were there to leave the traces of their voices and emotions. “ I like this comment.