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CV

Award-winning Photographer and photo editor with 10+ years of experience in visual storytelling, photojournalism, and newsroom operations. Edited and curated images for major international media and wire services. Currently based between Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Exhibitions

  • Exhibition: Realms of Memory, WMA
    2024            @ The Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, England
     

  • Exhibition: SI Fest
    2024            @ Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
     

  • Exhibition: Counter Histories, Magnum Foundation x Aperture
    2024            @ Center for Photography at Woodstock: CPW, New York

 

  • Exhibition: Counter Histories, Magnum Foundation x Aperture
    2024            @ Magnum Foundation, New York

 

  • Exhibition: 2024 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
    2024            @ Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong

 

  • Exhibition: Signals…瞬息: signals…here and there
    2023            @ Para Site, Hong Kong

 

  • Exhibition: For Many Years I Close My Eyes
    2023            @ Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC), Hong Kong
     

  • Exhibition: Landskrona Foto Festival
    2022            @ Sweden
     

  • Exhibition: Foam Talent 2021
    2021             @ Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
     

  • Online Exhibition: MMXX, Art at a Time Like This
    2021             @ online
     

  • Exhibition: FCC Wall Exhibition 2020
    2020            @ The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong
     

  • Exhibition: TRANSITION
    2018             @ Hong Kong Central Library, WMA Masters & WMA Film Exhibition, Hong Kong
     

  • Exhibition: Little Musicians In the Mountain
    2017             @ Gallery of the Harbour, Harbour City, Hong Kong
     

  • Exhibition: MOBILITY
    2017             @ 7 Mallory, WMA Masters Exhibition, Hong Kong
     

  • Exhibition: No Good Choices
    Commissioned by The Wall Street Journal
    2016             @ Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hong Kong

Collections

  • Museum Collection: ‘Island of Statues', I-IV
    2024                Collected by The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco
     

  • Museum Collection: 'Graffiti', 1-16
    2021                Collected by Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Honors, Awards & Grants

  • Shortlisted: The 2024 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
    2024                Sovereign Foundation
     

  • Jury: “Focus at the Frontline 2024” News Photography Competition
    2024                Hong Kong Press Photogrpaher Assocication
     

  • Grantee: Abigail Cohen Fellowship
    2022                Issued by Magnum Foundation x Asia Society
     

  • Grantee: VIIA Fellowship
    2022                Issued by @ VII Foundation & VII Academy
     

  • Foam Talent 2021
    2021                Issued by @ Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
     

  • Finalist: W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
    2020                Issued by W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund
     

  • Main Prize Honorable Mentions: PHmuseum 2020 Photography Grant
    2020                Issued by PHmuseum
     

  • Merit, Photography (Series): 24th Human Rights Press Awards
    2020                Issued by 24th Human Rights Press Awards
     

  • Merit, Photography (Single): 24th Human Rights Press Awards
    2020                Issued by 24th Human Rights Press Awards
     

  • Grantee: Magnum Foundation Fund
    2019                Issued by Magnum Foundation
     

  • Best Portfolio Review Award
    2019                Issued by Photo One 2019, Taiwan
     

  • Nominee: World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass
    2019                Issued by World Press Photo Foundation
     

  • Fellowship: Photography and Social Justice
    2018                Issued by Magnum Foundation
     

  • Shortlisted: Photo Taken: Emerging Scholarship
    2018                Issued by Lucie Foundation
     

  • Shortlisted: Photo Made: Emerging Scholarship
    2018                Issued by Lucie Foundation
     

  • Nominee: World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass
    2018                Issued by World Press Photo Foundation
     

  • Finalist: WMA Masters Award
    2018                Issued by WYNG Foundation
     

  • Finalist: Siena International Photo Award
    2018                Issued by Siena International Photo Award

Artist in Residence

  • Residence: Photoworks UK 
    2025               @London, UK
     

  • Residence: 2024 Media Professionals in Residence 
    2024               @The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
     

  • Residence: Artist-in-Residence Taipei 
    2019               @Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan

​ALL IMAGES © 2014-2025 BILLY H.C. KWOK ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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