Ira Chaplain is an award-winning American photographer who has lived in Hong Kong since 1994. His pictures have appeared in Der Spiegel, Discovery, Forbes, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, Maxim, New York Times, Paris Match, Village Voice and The Washington Post. Hong Kong Eurasian Nicole Chabot began writing professionally in 2000. She has lived in Edinburgh, Hong Kong, London and Amsterdam. Until 2011, she worked as a research associate at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where she wrote Kowloon: Unknown Territory.