The big picture: Bert Hardy’s portrait of striking Chinese seamen in 1940s Liverpool
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The big picture: Bert Hardy’s portrait of striking Chinese seamen in 1940s Liverpool | Photography | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation A group of men in a Chinese hostel in Liverpool, May 1942. Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images View image in fullscreen A group of men in a Chinese hostel in Liverpool, May 1942. Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images The big picture: Bert Hardy’s portrait of striking Chinese seamen in 1940s Liverpool The Picture Post photographer’s unpublished image, included in a new retrospective of his work, captures an equal pay protest that led to deportations I n 1942, Picture Post commissioned Bert Hardy to photograph the lives of Chinese sailors in Liverpool.