Fan Ho

Chinese Photographer | Born: 1931 - Died: 2016

From Modernbook Gallery:
Award-wining photographer Fan Ho has won 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956. Ho has been elected Fellow of the Photographic Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, England; Honorary Member of the Photographic Societies of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore and etc, and was honored with One-Man-Shows in the above countries. Ho�s works can be seen and have been published in many International Photographic Annuals all over the world.
Fan Ho has been invited by 12 Universities in Taiwan and Hong Kong as "Visiting Professor, " teaching the art of film-making and photography.Fan Ho has written five books, one of them containing all his award-winning prints that is currently a permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.The Living Theatre is Mr. 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.Fan Ho is currently living in California and Hong Kong and is represented by Modernbook Gallery.

From Wikipedia:
Ho Fan is a celebrated Chinese Photographer, Film director and Actor. He has won over 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956 for his photography. Fan Ho was born in Shanghai in 1937, 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. Upon seeing Ho Fan's work for the first time in 2006, gallery owner Laurence Miller commented that "[t]hey felt like direct descendants of the Bauhaus, yet they were made in Hong Kong. They were abstract and humanistic at the same time." Ho Fan is a Fellow of the Photographic Society of America, the Royal Photographic Society and the Royal Society of Arts in England, and an Honorary Member of the Photographic Societies of Singapore, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy and Belgium.

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Selected Work:

Selected Books:

Hong Kong Yesterday

Author: Fan Ho

Publisher: Modernbook Editions

Year: 2012 - Pages: 112

Now available is Fan Ho's most popular book, Hong Kong Yesterday (3rd Edition). Hong Kong Yesterday is a beautiful look at Hong Kong during the 1950's and 1960's by award winning photographer, Fan Ho. The book is Cloth bound, Hard cover, 9.5 x 11 inches, 112 pages, 70 dual-color plates.

The Living Theatre

Author: Fan Ho

Publisher: Modernbook Editions

Year: 2008 - Pages: 176

"Award-wining photographer Fan Ho has won 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956. Ho has been elected Fellow of the Photographic Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, England; Honorary Member of the Photographic Societies of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore and etc, and was honored with One-Man-Shows in the above countries. Ho's works can be seen and have been published in many International Photographic Annuals all over the world."

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