Editor – Rex Frost - FPSA
Several times we have commented on the prolific performance of Hong Kong pastoralists in Canadian Salons. At Victoria, it was much about the same as all last year. In the BC’s capital’s B and W International, 36 Canadian contributors entered 140 prints, 13 successful exhibitors had 21 acceptances. From Hong Kong, 21 contributors submitted 84 prints, 14 exhibitors had 25 acceptances.
Francis Wu, of Hong Kong, the almost inimitable PSA’er, with some 22 letters in the honors behind his name, writes saying that nearly 70 percent of the medals awarded in the world wide international black and white salons during 1955, were won by Hong Kong-ites. They also took all the major awards in Rolleiflex competition, and the top five places in the year’s “Who’s Who in Pictorial Photography” world listings.
This tremendous performance stems from the Hong Kong Photographic Society, of about 350 members, a stimulating example of what enthusiasm can do, plus we presume a slower pace of life in the Far East, which enable the devotion of more time to hobbydom. Whatever the reasons, the fact remains that Hong Kong, this past few years has virtually become the back and white photo capital of the world.
In 1955, The Society got rolling in color, and bought into being a fully-fledged color division. So watch it, you Canadian color fans, and color exhibition secretaries. Any time now, your color catalogues will be invaded with a host of Chungs, Chings, Hungs, Hines, Yans, Wu’s et. Al. It will be good for the causes, both photographic and International.
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