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Life Through a Lens

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Life Through a Lens

Hong Kong photographer Nicholas Kitto is on a remarkable journey to record China's 'treaty port' architecture, while at the same time uncovering his family's colonial past

Simon Ostheimer
Oct 31, 2020
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We were on a short family holiday to Shanghai to celebrate my son’s 14th birthday. I had promised not to be distracted by the old treaty port buildings on the Bund … but I couldn’t resist and was caught in the act by my daughter!

Having built up a successful career as an accountant, Hong Kong photographer Nicholas Kitto decided to leave behind the corpor…

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