This book documents the lives of young Hong Kong asylum seekers (aged 15–25) in the UK, who fled after the 2019–2020 protests. Too young to qualify for the British National (Overseas) visa, many were forced out of education and now live in temporary housing — waiting years, often alone, for asylum to be granted.
Photographer Deacon Lui transformed a suitcase into a pinhole camera to photograph their portraits and personal belongings. Alongside these images are the participants’ hand-drawn memories of home, written daily routines, and disposable camera photos of their new lives. Each person also responded to the same set of 10 questions — including: What does time mean to you? Who do you miss the most? If you could return to Hong Kong for a day, what would you do?
Together with text describing how they arrived in the UK and their reflections, the book explores loss, forced displacement, and memory—asking how we carry on when the home is taken away and becomes a place of no return.
This project was exhibited at Bermondsey Project Space, FORMAT24 Photo Festival, The RPS International Photography Exhibition 166, and Les Rencontres d'Arles 2025. Deacon Lui was also selected as one of 20 Carte Blanche Students by Paris Photo in 2023 for this project.
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First Edition, 50 copies
Handmade and Signed
By Deacon Lui, @lsb.co
1. Box Printing
Size: 160mm × 115mm × 82mm with Hidden Magnet
Paper: 120gsm Black card
Printing: Digital Offset
2. Booklet Cover Printing x 10
Paper: 300 gsm Black card
Printing: Letterpress with white ink
3. Booklet Printing x 10
Pages: 24pp
Open Size: 2368mm x 105mm
Finished Size: 148mm x 105mm
Paper: 135 gsm Recycled Uncoated Paper
Printing: Digital Offset
Binding: Leporello
Colour: 4C+4C
4. Book Info Printing
Pages: 2pp
Paper: Polar Bear White Heavy Card 400gsm
Printing: Digital printing
Colour: 1C + 1C
Size: 148mm x 105mm
Language: Traditional Chinese and English
Publication Date: Aug, 2025
This book documents the lives of young Hong Kong asylum seekers (aged 15–25) in the UK, who fled after the 2019–2020 protests. Too young to qualify for the British National (Overseas) visa, many were forced out of education and now live in temporary housing — waiting years, often alone, for asylum to be granted.
Photographer Deacon Lui transformed a suitcase into a pinhole camera to photograph their portraits and personal belongings. Alongside these images are the participants’ hand-drawn memories of home, written daily routines, and disposable camera photos of their new lives. Each person also responded to the same set of 10 questions — including: What does time mean to you? Who do you miss the most? If you could return to Hong Kong for a day, what would you do?
Together with text describing how they arrived in the UK and their reflections, the book explores loss, forced displacement, and memory—asking how we carry on when the home is taken away and becomes a place of no return.
This project was exhibited at Bermondsey Project Space, FORMAT24 Photo Festival, The RPS International Photography Exhibition 166, and Les Rencontres d'Arles 2025. Deacon Lui was also selected as one of 20 Carte Blanche Students by Paris Photo in 2023 for this project.
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First Edition, 50 copies
Handmade and Signed
By Deacon Lui, @lsb.co
1. Box Printing
Size: 160mm × 115mm × 82mm with Hidden Magnet
Paper: 120gsm Black card
Printing: Digital Offset
2. Booklet Cover Printing x 10
Paper: 300 gsm Black card
Printing: Letterpress with white ink
3. Booklet Printing x 10
Pages: 24pp
Open Size: 2368mm x 105mm
Finished Size: 148mm x 105mm
Paper: 135 gsm Recycled Uncoated Paper
Printing: Digital Offset
Binding: Leporello
Colour: 4C+4C
4. Book Info Printing
Pages: 2pp
Paper: Polar Bear White Heavy Card 400gsm
Printing: Digital printing
Colour: 1C + 1C
Size: 148mm x 105mm
Language: Traditional Chinese and English
Publication Date: Aug, 2025
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