{"id":12878,"date":"2025-11-19T17:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=12878"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:07:04","slug":"photos-of-iraq-by-hong-kong-photographer-explore-war-and-humanity-via-chance-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=12878","title":{"rendered":"Photos of Iraq by Hong Kong photographer explore war and humanity via chance encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hongkonger Thomas Chan initially saw photography as a way to preserve the memories of his travels. For the avid explorer, photos became a visual diary. But he wanted to delve deeper into his craft.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to challenge myself and be creative in my journey, and turn passive sightseeing into active creation,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

As part of this challenge, he headed to Iraq<\/span> in March to engage in what he calls a photographic experiment \u201cin which one stranger relies on another stranger to understand a strange place\u201d.<\/div>\n

Each morning, Chan asked a random taxi driver to take him to a place they themselves wanted to go. The requests took him on journeys to unknown destinations.<\/p>\n

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Sizing My Next Driver, by Thomas Chan, is one of the photos featured at Chan\u2019s exhibition \u201cStranger on Stranger\u201d at Wontonmeen in Sham Shui Po. Photo: Thomas Chan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The 28-year-old was on a mission to experience chance encounters \u2013 and he found them from the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn my first day in Iraq, a taxi driver named Ali took me to the burial place of his entire family who died during the Iraq war,\u201d Chan says, referring to the conflict between a US-led coalition and the Iraqi government from 2003 to 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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