A Defiant City: 239 sketches of Hong Kong’s mass protest movement 2019-20

#一本獻給真香港人的手繪速寫集

畫冊：這本畫冊收錄速寫共239張，作者原為新聞工作者，後轉為從藝。他在2019至20年香港的反送中運動期間，以速寫記錄了香港人面對苛政而奮起的抵抗。這場浩大持久的民衆抗爭運動，起因是當局意圖修例，移送「逃犯」給中國大陸。運動席捲全城，也令舉世為之震撼。畫冊内的速寫，記錄的事件始於2019年3月底香港特區政府提出修例，至2020年1月武漢肺炎疫症來襲且危及全球而告一段落。239張速寫均附有文字解説，簡述有關事件的時地、經過及因由，好讓讀者閲讀此書時，能看到一個按時序編列的圖文記錄，在縱覽這場真香港人的抗爭運動時有更多的認知材料。

速寫：全部原作使用A3（29.5 x 41.5厘米）圖畫紙，以鉛筆及簽名筆手繪，設色時用顔色鉛筆或再略加蠟筆。2019年6月香港兩次大規模的示威（6月9日，超過一百萬人上街；6月16日，超過二百萬），啓動了作者這個速寫計劃，他一直畫到2020年1月鼠年降臨之前才告一段落。速寫的底本多數是照片，9月之前使用的照片以楊方創作室兩個合夥人採攝的居多，之後參照其他來源及互聯網上載的照片漸增。

故事兩則：（一）此書圖文早在2020年2月已大體上齊備，但出版計劃卻兩次受到阻延：第一次是3月至6月，武漢肺炎大流行令全球陷於停頓狀態；第二次是7月至9月，因國安法強加於香港，令印刷厰難以承受印製此書的風險。最後，出版人只能在香港以外找承印商。（二）這是作者第二次結集出版香港抗爭運動的畫冊，第一次是2014年底出版的《雨傘速寫》，收錄了他139張速寫，錄寫他在雨傘運動期間所見的景象。其後，該書增補了速寫四張，在2015年中出了Amazon電子版。整批傘運速寫的原作，已成為大英博物館藏品。

#A book dedicated to all real Hongkongers

The Album: This book is a pictorial album containing 239 sketches made by a Hong Kong-based artist recording Hong Kong’s 2019-20 anti-extradition movement, a mass protest movement resisting a law amendment aiming at extraditing people in Hong Kong to mainland China. The development of the movement has attracted worldwide attention. The sketches compiled in this album covers events running from March 2019, when the extradition bill was introduced, up to January 2020, when the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic became a looming threat to Hong Kong and the whole world. With all sketches accompanied by short captions telling the five Ws: what, when, where, how and why, the book is almost a chronology of a historic resistance movement of the people of Hong Kong – Hongkongers.

The Sketches: The whole collection of sketches is made on A3 size (29.5 x 41.5 cm) water-colour paper. The sketch project began in June 2019 after the one-million-plus and two-million-plus protest marches and ended in mid January 2020 before the beginning of the year of the Rat. The media used were pencil and felt marker (sign pen); colour was added with colour pencil and, occasionally, crayon. The sketches are mostly based on photos taken by the two artists of Fong & Yeung Studio and also from various sources online.

Two related stories: (1) Nearly all materials of the book were ready in February 2020, but the project was brought to a halt twice: the first time from March to June by the 2020 novel coronavirus pandemic which practically put the world into lockdown mode; and the second time from July to September by Hong Kong’s national security law which made it too risky for the printer to take the printing job. Eventually, the book could only be printed outside Hong Kong. (2) This is the artist’s second pictorial album about Hong Kong’s protest movements, the first one being Umbrella Sketches: A first hand impression of the HK Umbrella Movement 2014. It was published in December 2014, containing 139 sketches. Then four more pieces were added in 2015 in an Amazon e-book. The whole collection of Umbrella sketches has entered into the collections of the British Museum.