The colorful life of Hong Kong in black-and-white photographs. Photo

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Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. ФотоMysterious black and white pictures from the city life and people

Modern Hong Kong is amazing and beautiful. It’s full of secrets, mysteries and historical landmarks affecting its grandeur and beauty.

Around him were myths and legends, and tourists from all over the world come to gawk at the huge Buddha statue that looks calm on the world. But that’s only any “coin” has its downside, which few people know. About how this city was even a few decades ago, will tell black-and-white pictures of Mr. Fan Ho (Fan Ho), who all his life had removed the old Hong Kong on a simple film camera.

He was born in Shanghai in 1937, but at an early age immigrated with his family to Hong Kong. The Ho family was not in the hectic and desperate: his father was a successful merchant, and, once settled in Hong Kong, he founded a factory for printing labels. But desperation and struggle for survival raged around them. However, when the young photographer went to the streets of Hong Kong with a camera his uncle’s Rolleiflex, it was not the vibrant life of the city, which he wanted to capture, but something else, incredible sunlight and shadow, the iconography of Hong Kong, distillation of the atmosphere of the city with its trams, rickshaws, bamboo forests, small boats rushing through viscous water with a single paddle, a bright, but hazy light. But the complete lack of crowds.

Instead, a lone man woman in traditional white clothes and long braid, the man on an old Bicycle, a rickshaw, dressed in a vest and hat: a maximum of one figure or two, always turned back, carefully moving away to the side, as though to hide from sight; typical lonely representatives of a huge, dynamic population, which in fact was never lonely, except in their dreams.

Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото
Пестрая жизнь Гонконга в черно-белых снимках. Фото

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