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...Fact is, TIFF's rise to prominence over the past three decades hasn't been accompanied by an emergence of Canada as an important national cinema. This country of 33 million has left less of an artistic footprint than, say, Hong Kong (6 million population) in the 80s or Sweden (4 million) in the Ingmar Bergman years. The provinces have produced a few notable directors - David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan from Ontario, Denys Arcand from Quebec, Guy Maddin from Manitoba - but their careers date back to the 60s, 70s or 80s. Other Canadians, like directors Norman Jewison and Paul Haggis...
...people in Hong Kong have any idea of the wastage that Yau's death represented. "I never thought that, 10 years later, I would be sitting here talking to someone about Yau Leung," says Ng from behind a box of his unpublished prints. But surely the time has come...
...administrator of his copyright, Ng jokes that had Yau been married, "I'm sure his wife would have made him throw most of his photos out. He was a real hoarder, not just of photos but of everything - newspaper clippings, tram tickets - and you know how small Hong Kong apartments...
...released a small selection of photographs in 1992, in the now unobtainable Lo Fung Stories ("Lo Fung" is the archaic literary name for Hong Kong). It was a masterpiece of editing, and a stunning publishing debut: here was a major photographic talent, arriving on the bookshelf or coffee table in a fully formed state and with images that practically hummed with love for the city and its proletariat. "I was born here, I have always lived here and all my work is here," Yau said in the foreword. In his sense of place, he was to Hong Kong what Robert...
...Fung Stories was followed by 1994's Flying Over Childhood - a childless man's deeply empathetic survey of Hong Kong's young (and with an English title, Growing Up in Hong Kong, that doesn't capture the playful poetry of the original). In 1997, he published what was to be his last collection, A Hundred Changes (again, poorly translated from Chinese as City Vibrance). It was a then-and-now volume in which Yau revisited locations he had documented decades earlier in order to record the invariably startling transformations that had taken place in the interim. These books...