![]() This new edition, published by Verlag Kettler, makes the book available to the public.Xu has not retouched the photographs. In 2014, he published his photos in a book that was banned by the board of censors. He captured the chaotic scenes on celluloid. ![]() 2600 people are estimated to have been killed, and 7000 injured.The photographer Xu Yong, aged 35 at the time, was among the survivors. There are no official figures for the number of victims. Unsettled by this public display of dissent, on 3 and 4 June the Chinese army violently crushed the protests. They made Tiananmen square their central meeting place. ![]() The colours of the photographs have been inverted to create a more interactive and thought-provoking experienceInspired by the reform movements in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, student protests began to form in China in the spring of 1989.A survivor's account of the Tiananmem Square massacre, told through photographs taken at the event. ![]()
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