Hawaii Chinese Newspaper – Honolulu – Thursday July 24, 1952

Francis Wu, Hong Kong Photographer Will Present Chinese Viewpoint In Lecture Tour Throughout Mainland.

Francis Wu

“My pictures have been exhibited all over the world” said Francis Wu, the Hong Kong photographer who is booked for a photographic lecture tour that will take him to practically every state in the country during the coming months.

Elaborating further, he remarked that he has sent photographs to exhibitions in England, France, Germany, Holland, India and The United States, just to mention a few.

“I even had a one-man show in Honolulu a few years ago” he commented. It was held in the Library of Hawaii and the photographs covered a variety of subjects”

An example of one who takes up photography by chance, Mr. Wu worked diligently at his vocation until now, after fifteen years, he has been invited by The Photographic Society of America to lecture on “Pictorial Photography from a Chinese Viewpoint.”

For his tour, Mr. Wu has selected two sets of fifty prints each. The first set consists of photographs of Chinese classical beauties. For the sake of tradition, minute detail had been given to costumes, coiffures and make-up.

The other is a set of Chinese pictorials, a composite
 Of several pictures put together to resemble Chinese paintings. As far as he knows, Mr. Wu is the first photographer to adopt this technique for Chinese paintings.

In addition to the lecture tour, this outstanding photographer will attend the annual convention of the Photographic Society of America in New York City from August 21 to 30. The second group is only composed of professional photographers.

Mr. Wu is resting as long as he can here before leaving for the first convention.

“I want to soak up plenty of Hawaiian sunshine before I start that long lecture tour.” He said.

This is not the first visit to the islands; however, he was sent here by his parents at an early age to attend St. Louis College, and Mun Lun School. After his graduation, he returned to China and received his bachelor’s degree from Lingnam University.

He arrived by plane last Wednesday night and is houseguests of relative, Mrs. Bertha Young of 3818 Kilauea Avenue.