The first photograph

"The First Photograph" depicts the story of the artist's father who fled from mainland China to Hong Kong in 1978. The video are presented in a series of overlays and montages, initially taken from one of his father's documentary photographs, and then combined with Google Maps to retrace the route of his escape from Hong Kong, as well as newspaper news and radio broadcasts from 1978 to 1980. The artist also used the old negatives found at home,including those are overexposed, torn, faded, with light leaks, etc., It is an attempt to find and restore the unrecorded family story in his father's fading memories, and to reflect on the larger historical narrative through the individual's life experience.