I first went to Kowloon’s Walled City in 1987 with a Chinese friend. I returned there alone in the summer of last year.


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I first went to Kowloon’s Walled City in 1987 with a Chinese friend. I returned there alone in the summer of last year.
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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 →Patrick Zachmann’s photographs from Tbilisi, Georgia, in Granta 30: New Europe!
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