Hong Kong Yesterday

"Reminiscences of Hong Kong", Fan Ho's most well-known photography collection, was published by the American publishing house Modernbook, and it is now in its seventh edition. The works included in this book were all shot in Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s. He has won numerous awards throughout his life, and he can be regarded as an international master of photography. Among them, he is famous both at home and abroad for his book cover work "Approaching Shadow".

Ho Fan is known as the "Grandmaster of a Generation" in the photography industry, and is even known as the "Oriental Bresson". Born in Shanghai in 1931, moved to Hong Kong in 1949. Fan Ho's prolific period of photographic work was concentrated from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. During this period, his black-and-white photography was already in a leading position in Hong Kong, and his photographic techniques were even more pioneering at that time. He has won nearly 300 regional and international awards by participating in competitions, and is an honorary member of many national photographic societies, including the Royal Photographic Society and the Royal Society of Arts.

So far, Fan Ho has only published four collections of works, including the trilogy published through the American publishing house Modernbook during his lifetime: "Hong Kong Yesterday, 2006", "The Living Theater" (The Living Theater, 2009) and "Hong Kong‧Memoir of the Past" (A Hong Kong Memoir, 2014). As well as "Portrait of Hong Kong, 2017", published after the anniversary of his death, the works included in the four photobooks are different and there is no duplication.