‘Hongkong Unrest’ by Nicolas Asfouri receives the Alfred Fried Peace Medal 2020 at the Global Peace Photo Award 2020
Danish photographer born in Beirut Nicolas Asfouri for his work ‘Hong Kong Unrest’: It is the year 2019 in Hong Kong. According to the agreement signed in 1997 between China and the UK, the former British crown colony is already part of China but shall still retain its mainly autonomous status until 2047: “One country, two systems.” However, the continuously increasing attempt by mainland China to gain control became manifest in 2019, among other measures, in a bill drafted by its governor which allows the extradition of opponents of the system to the Beijing regime. At first, students and pupils took to the streets in protest, young women and men. Then more and more people joined the pro-democracy movement, peaceful for the most part, to some extent also militant, which was suppressed with increased violence by police forces, with nightsticks and tear gas at first, and later with live ammunition.
Nicolas Asfouri is a Danish national, born in Beirut, Lebanon, who has worked for Agence France-Presse (AFP) for nineteen years. Asfouri began his career with AFP as a freelancer in London in 2001, and became a staff photographer in 2004. In 2005, he was named chief photographer in Portugal and, in 2008, he was named chief photographer in Thailand. Since 2016, Asfouri has been the Senior Photographer in AFP’s Beijing bureau in China.
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