This week Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up comes to you from Hong Kong where I'm a lecturer on a master tour for global journalism studies.
It is a fascinating time to be right here given the city has just celebrated, or commiserated depending on your attitude, the 20 th anniversary (1 July) of the handover from Britain to China. Meeting with the essential media firms has additionally delivered specific perspectives at the destiny of journalism and the significance of this city as a hub of world media.
But this Hong Kong go to has no longer only been about media and politics, it has additionally been approximately seeing exhibitions. Today I share my favourite with you, the retrospective of Fan Ho's work.
Profile:
Fan Ho (1931-2016) - The Cartier-Bress on of the East
Fan Ho
Born in Shanghai in 1931, Fan Ho started his love of photography at the age of 14 after he became given a Kodak Brownie. Four years later he bought a Rolleiflex, which have become his digital camera of choice. When he moved with his own family in 1949 to Hong Kong he started documenting the metropolis, spending lengthy days expecting the proper mild, the proper scene, his imagination sparked by using the daily happenings on the road.
Fan Ho experimented with lighting the usage of the factors he found on the streets - smoke, shadow, steam, water - as computer graphics. He favoured shooting at dusk and his topics have been the regular humans on the streets and within the markets.
As is regularly the case, Fan Ho in no way got down to create an historical visual report of Hong Kong, but that is precisely what his series, shot inside the Nineteen Fifties and Sixties, has turn out to be. Later Fan Ho went directly to work in motion photographs and is likewise revered as a movie director, however his love for still images remained at some point of his existence. He also shared his information teaching at numerous universities round the world.
Considered the daddy of road pictures in Hong Kong, in 1959 Fan Ho posted his e book of essays, "Thoughts on Street Photography" which continues to be in print nowadays, but only to be had in Chinese.
Fan Ho noticed photography's "special hyperlink to reality" as its greatest asset, but he also stated the complexities involved in taking pictures that decisive moment.
He spoke on ideas of objectivity and subjectivity, debates that still occupy photographers' thoughts nowadays. Fan Ho believed objectivity "seeks to portray reality in a right away, sincere way," at the same time as subjectivity "geared toward portraying some other type of reality and had to be seen greater as a mirrored image of 1's soul and spirit in nature".
(C) All works Fan Ho
To find out more about Fan Ho's paintings and to buy his books visit the website right here.
Next week I'll be lower back running a blog in the freeze of Melbourne's winter, but for now I'm playing the 80 % humidity, the large each day thunderstorms and pelting rain and the warmth of the East. Have a fantastic weekend.
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