Little girl urinating
Van der Elsken regularly combined photographs he had taken at different times and in different places. By arranging them next to each other, he was able to suggest a deeper meaning. In the book, this photograph was set between two pictures of lions symbolizing capitalism and communism. After all, Hong Kong was then a small, capitalist British colony on the Chinese coast. ‘And in between, a little girl: a child of the people crushed between two world powers!’