Francis Wu - His Photography Magazine

Photo by Francis Wu 1950

Francis Wu started his own photographic magazine in Hong Kong. The publisher is David Choy and is published by the Chinese Photographic Publisher. The magazine is called “Chinese Photographer”

Francis Wu is the Editor–in Chief of the magazine and David Choy and Dr. Ernest To as the Associate Editors.

The magazine is published in English and Chinese. In this cover, Francis was asked to photograph Miss Y, Y, Chang, a beautiful and talented Dramatic actress. She was dressed in a Ching Dynasty costume He photographed this photo at the New Photo Salon Studio in Kowloon.

In this issue, David Cohen wrote:

Francis Wu obtained his fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society in 1941, and a few years later in 1948 became a fellow of The Photographic Society of America. Further, The Photographic Society of America has appointed him, as the representative of China and Hong Kong.

Among his activities in the Chinese Photographic circles, there are a number of things we have to mention. He organized a miniature Photographic contest at Canton in the year 1933 which was sponsored by Schmidt & Co.

Francis, starting from Canton in the next year, on which he gave lectures on photography to many audiences, headed an all China photographic trip. He was one of the founders of The Photographic Society of Hong Kong and has been Vice-President for five successive years.

Wu is becoming the most famous of Chinese photographers and his work of such high standard that he is being praised for his masterpieces all over the world.