Events
A Photographic Journey through China and Beyond [1976-2024]
9 Oct 2024
4:30-6:00pm
Lau Chor Tak Lecture Theatre (LT1)
G/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park
Mr. Liu Heung Shing
World-renowned photographer and photojournalist
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Fuzhou, Liu studied at Hunter College in New York. He was the first Time magazine photojournalist posted in Beijing in 1978. After joining the Associated Press in 1982, he covered significant events in major cities worldwide. Liu has received numerous awards, including the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
Liu’s work has profoundly documented changes in Chinese society, with many images becoming iconic representations of contemporary China. In 2023, his major retrospective, ‘Liu Heung Shing: Lens · Era · People’, opened in Shanghai and drew more than 400,000 visitors. In 2024, he started an ambitious project of photographing developments related to the One Belt One Road Initiative.
In this public lecture, world-renowned photographer and photojournalist Liu Heung Shing will present highlights from his illustrious fifty-year career, sharing stories behind historic moments he has captured with his camera He will discuss how his photographs illuminate China’s path of reform and opening up in the late 1970s to the One Belt One Road Initiative today.
The lecture will be conducted in English.
