The protest in Hong Kong has no sign of dying down after months of violent fight. Began as an objection to the Extradition Bill to China, it has evolved to a comprehensive protest
over the future of this city. Police brutality does not only affect the protesters, but every ordinary Hong Kong citizen. Some of them were beaten by police baton, resulted in bone fracture. Some were shot by bullets. Some suffered from sexual harassment. Some have to face post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ko Chung Ming is a Hong Kong-based photojournalist. In the 2019 Hong Kong Protests, he attempted to photograph the conflicts and emotions like what he has been doing in the past 20 years. Overwhelmed by post-exposure symptoms from tear gas, he retreated from the frontier in August of 2019 and decided to record police brutality by taking portraits of the casualties. Ko also focuses on poverty,homelessness, and ethnic minorities. He has become a volunteer photographer for Oxfam Hong Kong since 2016. He joined Oxfam’s humanitarian program in Rohingya, Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique.
Awards "Wounds of Hong Kong" is the Winner of 2020 Sony World Photography Awards, Documentary, Professional Section.
“Cent Maison——Living Environment of the Poor in Hong Kong” won the WYNG Masters Award 2012.
