Children in a refugee village
Van der Elsken tried to approach the world open-mindedly. He was not naive, he said, but actually fairly cynical and sceptical. Nevertheless, he believed that refugees fleeing from communist China were being well taken care of in Hong Kong for humanitarian reasons and that hills and mountains were being dug out to build flats for them. For the time being, however, many were living in makeshift dwellings, as seen in this photograph.