South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Hong Kong photo restoration master brings history back to life” – below is their description.
In this digital age, nearly everyone has a smartphone or two that has a great camera capable of instantly snapping a collection of photos anywhere, any time. But not long ago, images capturing the highlights of a person’s daily life were not so easy to come by. Few people understand that as well as 48-year-old Ke Mingfeng, a photo restoration artist in Hong Kong. Tucked away in a tiny shop on the eighth floor of the Dragon Centre shopping complex in the city’s Sham Shui Po district, he works away restoring faded memories. He estimates that over the past decade, he has digitally given new life to nearly 10,000 old photos.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.