His Excellency, the Officer Administrating the government, the Hon. R.B. Black, CMG, OBE yesterday afternoon opened the Eighth International Salon of Pictorial Photography, 1953, at the St. John’s Cathedral Hall.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Photographic Society of Hong Kong, of which His Excellency the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, GCMG, is patron.
Following the opening ceremony, more than 100 prominent local residents and members of the local Press were treated to a preview of 232 exhibits selected from a total of 1,272 prints submitted by 352 entrants from 26 countries all over the world. Including two iron curtain nations, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
Francis Wu was one of the six judges responsible for the selections.
Hong Kong dominates the exhibition with 89 of its 364 submitted prints accepted for display, taking up over one-third of the total selected. United States is the second largest contributor with 57 prints out of 183. One print each was picked from Brazil, Greece, Yugoslavia, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.
Each salon since the war has attracted more entries than its predecessors and opportunities have been offered in the public to see examples of the work of the best photographers in the world. At the same time and partly because of these opportunities the work of our own photographers is receiving increasing attention throughout the world and in the recent London salon one out of every eight for the pictures exhibited came from Hong Kong Photographers.
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