Never-before-seen images by street photographer Fan Ho to go on show in Hong Kong
- ‘Portrait of Hong Kong’, an exhibition of some 40 photographs taken by the man dubbed the ‘Cartier-Bresson of the East’, opens next month
- Famous for his images of ordinary life and the cityscapes of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s, Ho died in California three years ago
A new exhibition of images by famed Hong Kong photographer Fan Ho, some which have never before been on public display, will be held next month in Hong Kong.
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A book of the same title will be available during the exhibition, which runs from March 22 to April 28 at the Blue Lotus Gallery in Sheung Wan.
Born in Shanghai in 1931, Ho started taking photos with his father’s Kodak Brownie camera at the age of 14.
In 1949, his parents moved to Hong Kong, where he maintained his passion for photography, in particular street photography. Dubbed the “Cartier-Bresson of the East”, Ho was honoured with nearly 300 local and international awards. Photography was not his job – he applied his talent to the film industry, where he started out as an actor before moving into directing, before retiring aged 65.
Photographs by Fan Ho are held in various private and public collections, the latter including those of the M+ museum of visual culture in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the Bibliothèque National de France, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Santa Barbara Museum of Art in the United States.
