Life Stories of the trapped experience centre
This is Hong Kong, our city, that we are familiar and unfamilar.
“Humanity in COVID”
Life is like a drama. You cannot guess when you will win or lose. It is full of ups and downs. As the tidal waves of the times tumble relentlessly, the grassroots are pushed to the edge of the storm. In the distant past, boats were broken during typhoons and it was uncertain when the boat dwellers could be accommodated ashore. Recently, when the pandemic sweeps across the world and causes incessant waves of unemployment. The grassroots remain suffering from high rents. The underprivileged community is fragile and powerless in the general environment.
Trapped – Photo Exhibition on Grassroots Housing in Hong Kong
In 2016, Society for Community Organization (SoCO) are working with photographer Benny Lam again to jointly organize a “Living Under Constraint” photo exhibition. Over 50 new photos are included, in a sequence of six series, all showing life in the 100sq ft “flats”.
Sojourning as tempura – Inadequate Housing Photo Exhibition
By using the voice of the photos, the exhibition unveils the dark side of the metropolitan and shows the toughness of the underprivileged in urban slums.
The Invisible: Exhibition of hidden groups in Hong Kong
This exhibition unveils a secret which has been hidden and opens a wound that has not healed. Treading the back alleys of the old neighborhoods, climbing on the trucks, stepping on the ruined staircases, crawling into packed cage homes, it serves as a conscious endeavor to disarticulate alienation and estrangement through a close encounter with these “invisibles” in our city.
Cage Home Exhibition
This cage home is actually situated in Tai Kok Tsui and an example of Hong Kong’s inadequate accommodation – according to government statistics there are nearly 100,000 people in Hong Kong who live in cage homes, cubicles or small partitioned flats.
Cagehome Exhibition
This exhibition is a basis for making 1:1 real models of cagehome. Bringing public a experience of their poor living condition.
