I've got some sad news to talk about today and I want to talk about Fan Ho, who was an amazing

photographer who passed away a couple days ago on June 19th at the age of 84. Fan Ho was exceptional and he had an enormous impact and a huge influence on my work as a lot of other

photographers and I did a video on him almost two years ago and I want to talk a little bit

about him today and I have a story that I want to share with you that happened behind the scenes with Fan Ho.

Fan Ho was born in Shanghai in 1931 and his family at a fairly early age moved to Hong Kong where he grew up and his

legacy is probably best known for a body of work that he did in the 1950s and

1960s in Hong Kong and it's significant for a number of reasons not only because Hong Kong was

experiencing a large amount of growth at that period of time but also what was

going on in Fanho's work stylistically.

And if you take some of the amazing work

that was being done in Europe at that time,

and even parts of the United States, definitely in New York,

and you fused all that together,

but transposed it over an Asian landscape that's kind of what you get with Van Ho he was a brilliant photographer

and I think some of that brilliance comes from that stylistic fusion of some of the things

especially compositionally use of light use of

line and shape that were going on in Europe at that time but you know with that whole

Asian flavor to it and I think it made him a very special photographer and very progressive for that period of time as well.

In the 1960s, Fanho went on to become a film director and did many films and then later did a lot of experimentation with photo manipulations in the dark room and did some very beautiful work with that as well.

And I want to talk a little bit about him today and I have a story that I want to share with you guys that you guys probably don't know that happened behind the scenes.

So I guess about two years ago I did a video on Fanho and I did a pretty in-depth analysis of his work and talked about his output and about two weeks after I did the

video I got an email one day from a gentleman named Danny who worked at Fanhose, the gallery that was representing

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