The Star Weekly, Toronto, Canada – November 6, 1954

It is no exaggeration that many of the world’s best photos will be seen in Victoria’s International Salon, the third week of this month. Of outstanding quality are these pictures of Hong Kong’s Francis Wu. The titles are “Flirtation”, “An Old Shatin Woman”, “The Clam Digger” and “Grandpa’s Darling” is a fine sample of the painting art.

The Clam Digger By Francis Wu

PSA Journal – PSA Convention - June 1983

Francis Wu. Hon. PSA, FPSA - Speaker on Pictorial Prints – “Pictorial Photography My Style”

The 1983 PSA International Convention, to be held August 8-13 in San Francisco, will feature a wide variety of programs on various photographic topics – including a special reception in honor of the Society’s 50th anniversary.

Our speakers will take us on voyages around the world, providing special views of life in Australia, China, Africa, Canada, Hong Kong and even Pennsylvania.

Francis Wu - One Man Show - Indonesia - November 1956

Francis Wu’s Print Collection

1.     In Search Of A Melody                
2.     Mary Goes Round                        
3.     A Dreamer                                   
4.     Harvest Summer                         
5.     Dawn                                         
6.     Rear Window                              
7.     Dreams Of A Faller Flower        
8.     Noodle Boy                                
9.     By The Fountain                         
10.    Lonely Stroll                              
11.    Fisherman’s Daughter            
12.    For Shrimps                                  
13.    Grandpa And His Pipe                
14.    Book End                                    
15.    Oriental Tapestry                         
16.    Portrait Of An Indian                  
17.    Maid And The Fan                   
18.    Forgotten Melody                        
19.    Pond Fishing                                 
20.    Work Begins At Dawn                 
21.    Tulsan Belle                                   
22.    Drifting In The Moonlight             
23.    Net Loss                                      
24.    Maid In Waiting                          
25.    Touches Of Sunlight
26.     Koko
27.    An Old Shatin Woman
28.    Before The Dance
29.    Net Drying In The Calm
30.    Sea Fever
31.    Smoke And Misty
32.    Fishing At Sunrise
33.    Fishermen's Paradise
34.    Just Two On A quiet Morning
35.    The Clam Catcher
36.    Two Little Fishermen
37.    The Boat Man
38.    That Land Is Green
39.    Net Drying In The Calm
40.    Beauty And Art
41.    Emily
42.    Steel Age
43.    Shell Fish Catching
44.    Evening Prayer
45.    Sunnyside Of Life
46.    Sailing In The Moonlight
47.    Tangled
48.    The Three Kittens
49.    Old Butt Delicious
50.    Symbol Of Peace

Francis Wu has a One-Man Show in Indonesia sponsored by the Sin Ming Hui Photographic Society. Francis Wu is also the Honorary Advisor of the Society.

The show was in November 1956.

Peace On Earth by Francis Wu

Foto Club De Salta XVInternacional De Arte Fotogragico – 1955

Francis Wu of Hong Kong has 4 prints in this exhibition in Argentina in 1955

By The Fountain
Mary Goes Round
The Fisherman’s Daughter
Harvest Summer

The Fisherman's Daughter by Francis Wu

PSA - Francis Wu – Honorary Representative of Hong Kong - December 18, 1953

Mr. Francis Wu, Hon. PSA, FPSA
53 Bonham Road, Top Floor
Hong Kong

Dear Francis:

It will not surprise you at all to receive this so-called official notice of your reappointment as Honorary Representative to China for PSA. The entire Society is very grateful to you for what you have done, and I hope that through your efforts and ours, we will be able to cement even more closely the relationship between our countries.

As a reminder, it will mean a great deal to the Society if you would give us an occasional report on what is happening in photography in your country for publication in the PSA Journal. The few reports that we have received and published last year have met with much interest on the part of the members. In addition, I will be moist grateful if you will recommend for PSA Honors those members in your country whom you believe deserve them. I’ll send you the necessary blanks immediately. Also, it may well happen that the Honors Committee will ask your opinion on members who are proposed.

I hope in the coming year, it may be possible to arrange exchange show to provide the kind of material from PSA that would be interesting to your photographers. In any event, it gives me great pleasure to confirm your reappointment, which was unanimously approved by the board of Directors.

Sincerely
Norris Harkness
President, PSA

Hong Kong Tiger Standard – Hints On Photography - By Francis Wu – December 24, 1961

Francis Wu

It's The Idea That Counts

In photography idea is one of the main ingredients that go in making a picture. So thinks Francis Wu who has been taking pictures for over 40 years.

Idea alone, however is not enough and must go together with composition and technique which, speaking from his own experiences, Wu remarked comes as one get more interested in taking pictures.

Talking of “Vanity” which he took and which illustrates this story, Wu said he had been wanting for a long time to take a picture series showing classical Chinese Beauties as they looked in the olden days.

He further remarked that the Chinese and Western conception of beauty is different. In the latter, parts of the body, from hands, bosom, neck to legs are photographed partially or wholly uncovered drawing emphasis, as a result, on the sex factor. The Chinese are more conservative on such matters and the classical beauty “Vanity” is shown making up hr eyebrow with a brush. The emphasis in the picture, as he wanted to convey it, is on refinement and subdued elegance

"Vanity".............The Chinese Way

Strive For Realism

Wu, whose picture have won prizes in international salons, rates American photographers the best in the world because of their concern over details.

Where do Hong Kong photographers stand? Its Wu’s opinion that Hong Kong photographers, striving for realism are less meticulous on questions on detail and more or less go along with Japanese photographers who believe in taking an action picture as it is happening without being unduly concerned over angle and lighting. One has to have “a seeing eye” If he is to excel in picture taking

China Mail – Pictorial Of Hong Kong – By Francis Wu - 1940’s

China Mail – Pictorial Of Hong Kong – By Francis Wu - 1940’s

This soft cover book is published by The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Printed by The Tai Wah Press and photographed by Francis Wu.

Hong Kong was ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Nanking in August, 1842, the island of Hong Kong quickly grew into a major city and seaport, houses, office buildings and godowns sprang up almost overnight and the harbor was soon busy with ships from most of the seven seas.

By a convention signed in October, 1860, the Kowloon peninsula on the mainland opposite was also ceded to Britain, being handed over formally in January of the following year

The amazing growth of the Colony of Hong Kong, which is less than a century was transformed from barren rock, partly covered with coarse grass, into one of the leading seaport of the world.

The Day Is Done by Francis Wu

Still Waters By Francis Wu

The Royal Photographic Society – May, 1954

Francis Wu – Appointed As Overseas Correspondence of Hong Kong

The Royal Photographic Society was founded in 1853 “to promote the Art and Science of photography”

Dear Mr. Wu:

At the last meeting if my Council it was unanimously decided to appoint you to serve for the year 1954-1955 as an Overseas Corresponding Member of Council for all Hong Kong and I hope that you will be able and willing to continue to assist the Society in this capacity

At the same time, I have to thank you for the service you have given to the Society in this way during the past year, for it is extremely valuable to the Society to have someone in your country to whom reference can be made on matters where advice and help are needed.

Yours sincerely,
L.E. Hallett
Secretary

Popular Photography Magazine – March - 1948

Spring Song by Francis Wu

    

Francis Wu’s photo “Spring Song” was published full page in the March 1949 issue of Popular Photography Magazine. It won a Merit in Photography Award  in the magazine’s 1948 picture contest. The judges selected this print as an outstanding example of Contemporary Photography.

Merit In Photography Award

Photo Art Monthly Magazine – February 1940

Francis Wu from far Hong Kong, China sends one of the great portraits of factual rendering but undeniable merit. The diffusion is remarkably well played off against the sharpness of the important features.

Photo by Francis Wu