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This intriguing picture was the work of Riddick Douglas Ning who graduated with distinction in Creative Media from the City University of Hong Kong. Riddick won the Creative Media Award 2009. The scene of this image bears a strong resemblance to Jean-François Millet's (1814-1875) Des glaneuses dit aussi Les glaneuses in 1857. The French farm ladies become Hong Kong's troop of old-lady scavengers while the outline of the farmhouse and the landscape are replaced by the skylines of Hong Kong's skyscrapers.

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Riddick has done a photography project titled Hong Kong Happenings which considers the relationship between photography and painting. His intriguing pictures retouch some key Western paintings with satirical overtones using modern Hong Kong as the background. In addition to this poetic work The Scavengers, The Spoiling of Adam is another example.

The picture, alongside with other great ones featuring Hong Kong photographers' works, is to be exhibited by DIORAMA PROJECTS in its second annual exhibition at Diorama Rue Raspail, Arles, France from 3 -10 July 2010, part of the Festival Voies Off.

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