Friday, February 23, 2018

Artist of the day, February 23: Fan Ho, Chinese photographer, film director

Fan Ho (何藩 1931– 2016) was a celebrated Chinese photographer, film director, and actor. From 1956, he won over 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide for his photography

Fan Ho was born in Shanghai, but immigrated with his family to Hong Kong at an early age. Ho began photographing at a very young age with a Rolleiflex camera his father gave him. Largely self-taught, his photos display a fascination with urban life, explored alleys, slums, markets and streets, depicting the street vendors and children only a few years younger than himself. He developed his images in the family bathtub and soon had built up a significant body of work, chronicling Hong Kong in the 50s and 60s as it was becoming a major metropolitan center.

Ho has been invited by twelve universities in Taiwan and Hong Kong to serve as a Visiting Professor, teaching the art of film-making and photography. He has written five books, one of them containing all his award-winning prints that are on display at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. The Living Theatre is Ho’s latest book done by MB Editions. Further, Fan Ho is an accomplished and acclaimed Hong Kong film director.

He won the “Best Film Award” in Banbury International Film Festival in England. Three of his films have received the “Official Selection” of the International Film Festivals of Cannes, Berlin, and San Francisco, and five of his films have been selected in the “Permanent Collection” of the National Film Archives of Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has also been elected as “judge” of the Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival and Hong Kong Oscar Film Award. It is this diverse cultural background that makes Fan Ho’s creative style so unique, full of lyrical beauty, dramatic power, and poetic grandeur.

© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Fan Ho Photography. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.



Mr Fan Ho

1945, Wet Day, Shangai

1946, Old Chinese Teahouse, Shanghai

1948, After the war

1949, Women toilers

1952,  Rickshaw man

1954, Approaching shadow

1954, The Lone Ranger

1955, As evening hurries by

1955, At the Crossroad

1955, Into the Mist

1956, Journey to Uncertainty

1956, Pattern

1957, Circles

1958, Arrow

1958, Different Directions

1958, Evening in Aberdeen

1958, Hong Kong Midnight

1958, Little Grandma

1958, Lonely stroll

1958, Moonlight Serenade

1958, The Return

1959, Afternoon Chat

1959, In a Chinese street

1959, Out There

1959, Smokey Staircase

1959, SunRays

1959, W

1959, Work and Play,

1960, Journey Mystique

1960, Private

1960, Pulling Carts

1961, Kids and Cats

1961, La Strada

1961, Little Women

1962, A day's end

1962, A Sad Sad Song

1962, Between Showers

1962, Daddy's Helper

1962, Get Along

1962, Hong Kong-Venice

1962, Inferno

1962, Wavy Stairs

1963, East Meets West

1963, Into The Light

1963, Market Parade

1965,  Balloon Peddler

1965, Danger

1966, Flare

1966, In Daddy's Arms

1966, Life in a Slum

1967, Mothers Helper

2011, The Lonely Conductor

2011, Twins Alley

from  "A Hong Kong Memoir"

from  "A Hong Kong Memoir"

from  "A Hong Kong Memoir"

Opposites

Young Musketeers

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