Field Notes

Short-form observations, reflections, and behind-the-scenes notes from the field.

• Hong Kong’s $2.9 Trillion Turning Point

  Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the largest cross-border wealth centre, just as Beijing seeks more visibility over mainland money moving offshore.

• Remembering David Abiaw: One of Our Fallen Comrades

  David Abiaw left an extraordinary archive of photographs, and memories of friendship, faith and a vanished era of Fleet Street press photography.

• Prince Harry v Associated Newspapers Rolls Building, Case KB-2022-003357

  A field note from the Rolls Building on the misuse of private information claim brought by Prince Harry against Associated Newspapers Limited.

• Moving Forward

  A field note on progress without projection: effort, impermanence and continuing without attachment to outcomes. A primary-source record, not a manifesto.

• Reflective Introduction (2026): Paparazzi, Platforms, and Extraction

  A 2026 introduction to a 2007 NUJ Journalist magazine archive, showing how the economics and ethics of paparazzi photography now work at platform scale.