item details
Name[people presenting gifts to the dead at a cemetery (from a series on Hong Kong)]
ProductionBrian Brake; photographer; 1970-1976; Hong Kong
Classificationcolour transparencies, documentary photographs
Materialsphotographic gelatin, dye, cut film, reversal film
Materials Summarycolour transparency
Techniquesphotography, colour photography, chromogenic processes
Registration NumberB.076581
Credit lineGift of Wai Man Lau, 2010
Overview
Depicts a woman in a rust-coloured cardigan, bending over to hold a paper-wrapped bundle toward a tombstone. A whole cooked pig and a range of fruit and cups have been placed on the grave. There are numerous people in the background, and a small child with a white jersey with red and blue stripes in the foreground.