Pro Democracy Demonstrations, Hong Kong: The Revolution of Our Time
On June 9th 2019, an estimated one million people took to the streets of Hong Kong to march in protest to the government’s proposed Extradition Bill, allowing citizens to be extradited to mainland China for prosecution. Since that day, Hong Kong has been plunged into a political crisis, with waves of demonstrations and violent clashes between Police and protestors with an alarming rise in the number of police brutality and misconduct allegations, as protests morphed into a wider call for democratic rights and freedom in the semi-autonomous city.
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Biography
Kiran is an award winning photographer working throughout Europe and Asia, concentrating on news, social political topics and the human experience.
His work has is published throughout the world including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Times and The Financial Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Le Figaro, Le Point, Welt, El Pais, Forbes, Observer and Guardian newspapers, Time, Spiegel, Economist Magazine, GQ and Vanity Fair amongst many others.
Based in Paris, his work is distributed with leading photographic agency Getty Images.
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Awards
Most recently Kolga Tbilisi Reportage Award 2020, TAPSA Scholarship and Siena Award for his reportage on Hong Kong. First prize in the Editorial News Category of the 2019 ND Awards for his work on the Gilet Jaune movement in France.
Previously he has been a finalist in the Association of Photographers ‘Document’ Awards, Highly Commended in the Ian Parry Award and finalist for 'Young Photographer of the Year' in the 'Picture Editor’s Awards'.
