Chris Siu (b.2001) is a Hong Kong born photographer, currently living and studying on unceded Kaurna Country in Tarntanya Adelaide, South Australia. Informed by documentary conventions, his work investigates and chronicles the intricate relationships that lie within his surrounding social landscapes. Chris’s practice is informed by the flux of socio-political happenings in his homeland Hong Kong and his ever-changing place within it. Through exploring notions of layered histories and geopolitics, Chris’s work seeks to offer a reflection on personal and communal experience, pivoting around representations of civil unrest, diasporic experience, cultural displacement and marginality within contemporary existence. Chris works primarily in medium format analogue photography. He is drawn to this photographic process because it is produced and cared for entirely by hand; from capturing and developing, to printing and digitising the analogue images. His ongoing project, ‘Then We Keep Living,’ was selected for Helpmann Academy’s cross-institutional graduate exhibition and Hatched: National Graduate Show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in 2023.