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Equal Opportunity Photo Competition Result

COMPETITION DETAILS   PHOTO GALLERY

 

The winners, selected by a panel of judges, are as follows:

Champion: A Cleaner under COVID-19 in Mong Kok

By: Wong On Yin (LKS Faculty of Medicine)

Theme: Mutual Respect

Mong Kok was always crowded with office workers, people shopping, and people going to the vaccine center. On this day, a worker in a white uniform suddenly caught my eye. It was a woman who was cleaning outside the mall. People are afraid to go out during Covid-19, but there is this committed group of street cleaners in Hong Kong who provide sincere assistance in keeping the streets clean.. As soon as I see them, I will thank them for their hard work, and if possible, I will even hand them water. I believe that very person is born with their own dreams, and I would love to know more about the stories and dreams they have.

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First Runner-up and Viewers' Choice Award: Zero Hunger

By: Wong On Yin (LKS Faculty of Medicine)

Theme: Inclusion and Diversity

Homeless people in Hong Kong also come from different nationalities. The day I volunteered at ImpactHK, I discovered that people of many racial groups are there, including Blacks, Whites, Asians, Africans, and South Asians. All of them line up in an orderly manner and they always sincerely say "thank you" after receiving free meals from us. I believe that homeless people have the same rights and dignity as anyone else, as stated by UN Sustainable Development Goal 2: "Zero Hunger."

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Second Runner-up: Together We Define Diversity

By: Denise Dela Adzakey (Faculty of Science)

Theme: Inclusion and Diversity

An environment filled with a diverse group of people is an environment everyone should wish to be. It provides a community where there are people from different backgrounds with unique cultures to share. In this photo, I went wild camping for the first time ever, this experience was unique not only because I went for a wild camp but I spent two days with a diverse group of people from Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong and India. It was a great time to try new food and dance to music from each country. This picture also depicts how working together leads to success. Because of our diverse backgrounds, the kayak raft we established would have disbanded if we had not united.

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Merit: We Are All In This Together

By: Chang Manshin (Faculty of Engineering)

Theme: Inclusion and Diversity

Life is a mountain we all have to climb. It can be a lonely road to be achieved individually or with friends and family from different backgrounds, supporting each other to make the process more enjoyable and make it easier. We are on this journey together. We are all in this together.

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Merit: A Closer Look at Chinatown

By: Cheung Ho Ching (Faculty of Social Sciences)

Theme: Inclusion and Diversity

This is taken in Chinatown in New York. Although we can easily see that Chinatowns worldwide are symbols of inclusion and diversity, we usually consider them as mini-China within a foreign country. However, reality shows more of an intermingling between Chinese and foreign cultures, which enhances diversity even more. In this photo, not only do we spot the traditional lanterns across buildings, but we also note the Chinese and English signs side-by-side. The building styles from various countries, as well as the hanging of American flags in Chinatown in the United States, perfectly demonstrates how multi-layered inclusion can be.

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Merit: Our Glorious Diversity (2022)

By: Emmanuella Nhyira Agormeda-Tetteh (Faculty of Engineering)

Theme: Inclusion and Diversity

03 Our glorious diversity 2022

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Merit: Under the Friendship Umbrella

By: Farrah Mohammad Ishaq (Faculty of Education)

Theme: Inclusion and Diversity

27 Under the Friendship Umbrella

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Merit: The Dancer

By: Gaia Guatri (Faculty of Social Sciences)

Theme: Inclusion and Diversity

This picture was taken in Victoria Park during a traditional Indonesian festivity organised by a community of Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong. The dancer is surrounded by other masked women taking pictures of her, hypnotised in her moves full of beauty and harmony. This picture expresses the inner conflict between a sense of hope and freedom inside each human being and the sense of restrictedness during the pandemic of Covid-19.

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Merit: Rainbow Connection

By: Lau Yan Lok (LKS Faculty of Medicine)

Theme: Inclusion and Diversity

28 Rainbow connection

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Merit: Little Red Riding Hood

By: Lee Ka Yi (LKS Faculty of Medicine)

Theme: Preventing Sexual Harassment

Have you heard? That the innocent story of red Riding Hood has another layer of the implications related to female growth and sexual harassment dangers, most of all, implies that girls are hardly safe on their own in the outside world. Unfortunately, this stands true in the society. Taking of the red hood, there are millions of little girls around the world who are at risk of sexual harassment, sometimes by someone close, and other times even without the knowledge of it because harassers take advantage of their innocence. In this photograph the little girl plays alone in a park, atmosphere dim and dangerous, yet there remains hope that one day such curation will be irrelevant; that the Red Riding-hood is just another fairytale; that this picture is solely depicting a girl playing with her Teddy Bear joyously; and that no one, be it man or child, should feel at risk of harassment when they’re alone.

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Merit: Pigeons

By: Lin Ronghan (HKU Business School)

Theme: Inclusive and Diversity

We won’t hurt a pigeon because of its colour.

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Thanks to our judges
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Professor Maggy Lee, Professor of Department of Sociology, Dr Florian Knothe, Director of University Museum and Art Gallery and Associate Professor of School of Humanities, and Dr Chi Chung Wong, Head of General Education, Cedars-GE, for serving as judges of this competition.

  • DATE: Jun 13, 2022