SAC Journalism Students Get Up-Close at 香港抗议活动

SAC journalism and mass communication students were given an inside look at the protest movement that has roiled Hong Kong this year from a news photographer covering the drama.

保罗杨, a freelance photographer for Bloomberg 新闻, shared more than 100 of his pictures from the frontline of the demonstrations and talked with students in 新闻 Photo I, 媒体写, and two communications courses about covering the protests.

使用Skype, Yeung shared a slide show featuring protestors on Hong Kong streets and malls clashing with police. 在一些图像中, protestors wearing masks are shown picking up cannisters of tear gas and throwing them back at police in riot gear. Several images showed violent fistfights between protestors and police. One photo showed young high school students, 在焦虑, holding hands and forming a chain next to a busy street.

Yeung has been covering the demonstrations since protesters first took to the streets earlier in 2019 to oppose an extradition bill proposed by the Hong Kong government. The conflict has continued into 11月 with police confronting demonstrators at local university campuses.

Yeung told students he has had to take extra precautions when shooting photos at the protests. He said he wore a gas mask to avoid the tear gas fired by the police and a helmet to protect himself from getting hit by tear gas cannisters and rubber bullets. He started wearing a bright green vest with the word PRESS written on the back to identify himself to police and protestors, although he said lately the police have been targeting the press as well as demonstrators.

Dr. 卢玉光, journalism professor in the photography program, is a former teacher and co-worker of Yeung and invited him to speak to SAC students. Lo said the video conference gave students a rare look into covering a major international story.

“I was hoping my photojournalism students could learn from this first-hand experience to know what they need to photograph an intense conflicting and dangerous situation, 无论是技术上还是精神上,他说. ”也, 在这种情况下, where contradicting political stances and human life are concerned, what kind of ethical decisions a photojournalist should make.”

“I think it is a good chance to see journalism outside of not only the classroom but the country and see how they operate in a different culture with different problems,塞尔吉奥·梅迪纳说, a SAC student in 新闻 Photography I. “It shows the importance of journalism because we see the severity of what is going on in Hong Kong. And it makes you feel for the people and relate to their problem.”

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