Kan Hing-fook has earned many accolades in international salons. Providing a strong sense of Chinese heritage and poetics, he has established the unique "Tchan Style" He asserts that "landscape photography should honour the heritage of Chinese painting" and advocates the principle of a "composite-style of photography and painting". Over the years, Tchan has produced a host of outstanding works rich in Chinese character. He also invested in publications like Photoart and Photo Pictorial which popularised photographic art. Tchan Fou-li founded the Chinese Photographic Association of Hong Kong, an association comprised mostly of Chinese photographers. Wong (1932-) are three pivotal figures of this movement. Active since the heyday of pictorialism, Tchan Fou-li (1916-), Kan Hing-fook (1921-) and Leo K.K. At the same time, nurtured by a deeply-rooted Chinese culture, these artists created a unique photographic aesthetic. Living in this cosmopolitan city where east meets west, and influenced by Western photographic art, local pictorialists sought to create painterly effects as an expression of a fine art sensibility. Looking back on the development of the history of photography in Hong Kong and the influences it exerted upon the entire Chinese community, it is clear that this city's mainstream movement from the 1950s to the 1980s was pictorialism. "Hong Kong Photography Series" Exhibition I The Verve of Light and Shadow: Master Photographers Tchan Fou-li, Kan Hing-fook, Leo K.K.
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