Week Four

Ho Fan (Chinese: 何藩) He was born in 8 October 1937 and passed away on the 19 June 2016. He was a celebrated Chinese photographer, film director, and actor. He won over 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956 for his photography.

ABOUT HIS PHOTOGRAPHS

His images are taken during 1950's–60's and printed during the 50's–70's. During this time Fan Ho was a one man working studio. He would photograph late afternoon, process and print his film at night and do it all over the the next day. Giving a sense of history, some of the images have awards stamped on the back from competitions he entered. The images have no sizes vary, each and every pieces are one of a kind. 

This is one of my favourite out of all his works. Firstly, this image's ration is perfectly balanced, there is a balanced contrasted between its subject and the surrounding. I actually applied such style in my first project. 

Fan Ho captures the life of Hong Kong. His images are all similar in terms of composition, layout and form. He makes use of silhouette of humans and form a nice composed image. A simple image of everyday life in Hong Kong. His images are definitely strong enough to tell the stories of how living in Hong Kong feels like. He covers all types of people, emotions and occupations of Hong Kong. I appreciate his works a lot as they are beautiful histories.