Fan HO
何藩
Fan Ho is a celebrated Chinese photographer, film director and actor.
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 to 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 Fan Ho's work for the first time in 2006, gallery owner Laurence Miller commented that they felt like direct descendants of the Bauhaus, yet they were made in Hong Kong. They were abstract and humanistic at the same time.
Fan Ho 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.
He has won over 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956 for his photography.
Publications
2017 - Portrait of Hong Kong 《念香港人的舊》,WE Press 香港人出版
2014 - A Hong Kong Memoir《香港・往日情懷》, Asia One Books & Modernbook Editions
2009 - The Living Theatre 《人生舞台》, Modernbook Editions
2006 - Hong Kong Yesterday 《香港追憶》, Modernbook Editions
1993 - Gone are the Days, A Memoir of Four Photographers 《往日時光,四友攝影精選集》by Fan Ho et. al., Next Publications Co. Ltd., Hong Kong
1982 - Complete Collection of Ho Fan's International Award-Winning Photographic Art《何藩國際大獎攝影全集》, European Languages Publication Ltd., 歐語出版社
1972 - Modern Photography 《現代攝影欣賞》, 藝術圖書公司
1959 - Thoughts On Street Photography《街頭攝影叢談》, Hai Kwang Press, Hong Kong 香港海光出版社
Collections
Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA and many more.