By Coconuts Hong Kong October 20, 2015 / 17:27 HKT
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How much does your lunch usually cost? HKD70? HKD35 if you’re lucky? Now imagine having just HKD25.5 to spend on food for the entire day, every day. Cue phantom tummy rumbles.
While this may seem unthinkable to most of us, unfortunately that’s the plight faced by at least 1.3 million Hongkongers who live below the poverty line.
In a bid to start a conversation about this, #thepovertyline is calling on the local community to participate in a large scale exhibition at SoHo’sPMQ (35 Aberdeen Street, Central) next month.
With just three days remaining for submissions, Hongkongers are asked to purchase food for HKD25.5 and take a photo of it on a local newspaper. Although Coconuts HK is obviously your news portal of choice, for legal reasons we must advise against the piling of food stuff onto your computer.
The final exhibition will see 3,000 selected images printed onto removable stickers and installed in a huge collage covering the walls and ceiling outside Taste Library, PMQ, between Nov. 27 and Dec. 6.
This solo presentation will be the project’s biggest undertaking to date since the idea was conceived out of the work of the Poverty Line – a collaboration between Malaysian photographer Stefen Chow and economist Hui-Yi Lin, which began in China in 2010 and has since expanded to 28 countries across six continents.
To submit your photo before Friday’s deadline:
- Buy HKD25.5 worth of food from a market or a supermarket (not from a restaurant or takeaway).
- Photograph it on top of a local newspaper.
- Email your photo tothepovertylinehk@gmail.com with your name and a quick thought.
- Post your pic to Instagram and Facebook with the hashtags #thepovertyline and #HongKong. (Only emailed photos will be included in the exhibition.)
http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2015/10/20/thepovertyline-exhibition-reveals-what-hong-kongs-poor-can-afford-eat-day
