Francis Wu Picture Awarded
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| Old Butt Delicious By Francis Wu |
One of the four Bronze Plaques awarded at the Sixth Lucknow International Salon of Photographic Arts, sponsored by the United Provinces Amateur Photographic Association in Lucknow and Allahabad, India has come to Hong Kong.
The recipient is Mr. Francis Wu, one of Hong Kong’s leading photographers, whose entry was among more than 3,000 others displayed at Lucknow in March.
Mr. Wu, who ahs more than 15 years’ photographic experience behind him and who started with a box camera, sent in an entry titled “Old Butt Delicious” depicting a wrinkled Chinese coolie puffing at a foreign cigarette butt picked up from the street.
The photograph is now on display at Mr. Wu’s studio in the Gloucester Arcade.
Lucknow has always been a multicultural city, and flourished as cultural and artistic capital of North India in the 18th and 19th centuries. Lucknow has developed as a metro city of Uttar Pradesh and second largest in the state.
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