Girard, who was working as a sound man for BBC News at the time, describes his first sighting of the city. Why would you make a book about that? Why would you go there? They were all convinced I was going to get murdered,” Lambot tells Coconuts HK.īut Girard and Lambot, who found themselves match-made when mutual friends realised they were both obsessed with photographing the Walled City, discovered a very different reality in the depths of the so-called “Den of Iniquity” – a reality that neither could tear themselves away from. “When we did the book in 93, all my Hong Kong friends couldn’t understand it.
Now out of print, the original offering sold 20,000 copies worldwide, much to the surprise of Hong Kong locals at the time. Launching in Hong Kong tomorrow, City of Darkness Revisited is the followup to the revered 1993 publication City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City.
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