deck of most-wanted playing cards lies faceup on the screen, each identifying a member of Hong Kong’s prodemocracy movement rounded up by police, many still languishing in pretrial detention more than a year and a half after participating in a “seditious” by-election. In another image, sheets of stationery shop paper on which customers test pens are filled with antigovernment slogans. At the end of the day they will be removed and replaced, but for a brief moment in time this is one of the few fleeting canvases where Hong Kongers can express themselves. The photographer Billy H.C. Kwok is sharing
