Patrick Zachmann’s photographs from Tbilisi, Georgia.


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Patrick Zachmann’s photographs from Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Patrick Zachmann has been a freelance photographer since 1976 and member of Magnum Photos since 1990. His photo essay for Granta 29, ‘The Walled City of Hong Kong’, formed part of a six year investigation into the Chinese diaspora, which culminated in the publication of W. or the Eye of a Long-Nose.
More about the author →‘I first went to Kowloon’s Walled City in 1987 with a Chinese friend. I returned there alone in the summer of last year.’
‘To relive is the snarl of description, worked over repeatedly in the mind’
A poem by Jenny Xie.
‘By the time I was in my teens, I had taken up an existence framed by a double negative: not male, not white.’
An excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s essay collection, Black and Female.
‘During an interrogation speech glows hot in the mouth, and what is spoken freezes.’
Herta Müller on language. Translated from the German by Philip Boehm.
‘Our theme of conflict is internal as well as external.’
The editor introduces the issue.
‘Luke believes that the early stories might not have been published if the author and translator were uncompromising.’
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