photos.gledits.ch

All pictures carrying the watermark "photos.gledits.ch" belong to a collection of photographs taken by the late Norwegian missionary Dag Gleditsch (1920 - 2010). Here photographed in the New Territories with his wife Gurli Gleditsch MD (1919 - 1987). Gurli was born in the Hunan Province in China and spent most of her childhood on the Mission Station Taohualun in Yiyang northeast of Changsha.

We are their four sons who grew up in Hong Kong in the nineteenfifties and -sixties. Three of us came to Hong Kong with our parents on the freightship MS Talisman of Wilh. Wilhelmsen Lines in 1954. The fourth was born in Kowloon Hospital in 1956, proving to us the old saying "Every fourth child born is Chinese". After our last period in Hong Kong, we left from Kai Tak on a BOAC aeroplane in January 1966, returning home to Norway, although the term "home" has to us always carried a duality after spending almost our entire childhood in Hong Kong.

Dag Gleditsch bought his first camera, a Praktica Fx ( http://www.praktica-collector.de/125_Praktica_FX.htm ) shortly after arriving in Hong Kong, and was a keen photographer all throughout his stay in Hong Kong. He has left us a formidable collection of photos from those early days and helped us keep our childhood memories fresh and vibrant.

The pictures may be shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-NC-ND). (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode)

Any questions regarding the photographs can be emailed to <photos (at) gledits.ch>