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Kwoi Gin, originally from Hong Kong, is a photographer, cinematographer and artist based in Toronto. As a Paper Son descendant, Kwoi has been actively documenting his journey and the stories of others through his writing, images & installation.

Kwoi Gin (甄國健) 來自香港，是一位現居多倫多的電影製片人、攝像師、攝影師和教育家。作為 買紙仔的後裔，甄一直積極通過電影、寫作和圖像記錄他的旅程和他人的故事

“…Made in Hong Kong” & culturally disoriented in the Americas. I’ve lost close friends, survived poverty, attended art school, read some books and lensed the world. Life is not about working through an established list of plans, but rather appropriate improvised responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled environment, but in a changing environment, competing plans collide, creating unexpected situations. Every day can be a revelation of new discoveries. I treasure my memory of past misfortunes. My fortune cookie predicaments include making peace with the notion of living on the margins without borders, staking claims to a “paradise” with decent Chinese food, retiring a gentleman of leisure with a mahjong parlor somewhere in the South Pacific and devoting myself to the art of meditative probability since celluloid art has become obsolete. In the meantime, I’m a free agent, living in my converted church/studio in Koreatown, still looking to go one last dance with anyone out there with a kick ass script to shoot even if it means shooting digital…”