Galileo Cheng is a freelance photojournalist and editor based in London, U.K., capturing social injustice and human rights issues across Asia, U.K., and North America. His work, featured in Radio Free Asia, Hong Kong Free Press, Die Tageszeitung etc., includes fixing for The New York Times during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests and contributing to Hongkongers’ Fight for Freedom: Voices from the 2019 Anti-extradition Movement (Brill, 2023).
A shot of the Tiananmen Massacre sculpture’s removal won a merit at the 26th Human Rights Press Awards—later axed over National Security Law concerns. In 2023, he was a finalist for Student Photographer of the Year by the News Photographers Association of Canada, shortlisted in United Photojournalists of Canada Year in Pictures 2024.
Galileo earned a master’s in journalism from the University of British Columbia and in cultural studies from Lingnan University. An alumnus of RoomUpFront Canadian Photojournalism Mentorship for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour and the Asian American Journalists Association, he speaks English and Chinese natively, with working proficiency in Japanese.
Between shoots, he reads comics and anime, dives in indie music and film, wandering around vintage menswear stores, and whispers to lap-napping cats, believing they reply.
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