Thadde Comar, a Franco-Swiss photographer, presents his documentary project "How Was Your Dream?" at the Belfast Photo Festival, which runs until 30 June. The work captures the 2019 extradition bill protests in Hong Kong, where over 10,000 people were arrested, focusing on the protesters' use of laser lights, anonymity, and other tactics to resist sophisticated state surveillance and control systems.
The project matters because it documents a pivotal moment of mass dissent in Hong Kong and raises urgent questions about the erasure of individual identity in the face of increasingly seamless systems of control. By highlighting the tension between collective resistance and the loss of personal singularity, Comar's work offers a critical reflection on the future of protest and civil liberties in an era of advanced surveillance.