So Hing Keung has been practising photography for more than a decade and has long deviated from usual photo-taking style. He is this generation's most accomplished Hong Kong photographer and his works cover many aspects of Hong Kong and China. 'China Portraits' is a series of portraiture completed in the Chiu Chao town, Chao Yang in Northern Guangdong - So Hing Keung's family ancestral home. He is interested in the social and economic changes of his homeland over the past ten years and he has tried to photographically document these changes; of which these portrait photographs are one aspect of a wide series of documentary photographs.