FAN HO

Fan Ho’s photographs are among the most recognisable images of post-war Hong Kong. He photographed streets, markets, rooftops, harbour fronts, alleyways, and backlit passages with a sharp sense of timing and composition, finding drama in ordinary movement and atmosphere in everyday light. His pictures are carefully structured, but never static; they hold the density, motion, and changing texture of a city in transformation.

Rather than presenting Fan Ho’s work in isolation, Hong Kong Symphony places it in conversation with its wider photographic moment. Alongside his photographs, the exhibition includes selected vintage works by other Hong Kong photographers of the same generation, offering a broader view of the salon culture and image-making environment in which his work emerged. Seen in this context, Fan Ho appears not only as a singular eye, but also as part of a larger photographic scene that shaped the visual identity of mid-century Hong Kong.

The exhibition is presented in parallel with the publication Hong Kong Symphony, which brings together Fan Ho’s photographs of the city in book form. Together, the exhibition and publication offer an opportunity to look again at a body of work that continues to shape how Hong Kong’s past is remembered and imagined.