Maria

Pun Yet-pore started to take photographs in his first year in secondary school. He won the grand prize in the Flying Eagle Photographic Studio competition one year in the 1930s. In 1940 his work Hanging Nest was selected for exhibition by the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. As one of the founders of the Photographic Society of Guangdong and the Chinese Photographic Association of Hong Kong, Pun won numerous prizes from international salon and obtained many titles. In the 1950s Pun started to teach photography and many of his pupils became world famous. It was by virtue of his excellence and conscientiousness that he attained the eminence of a master photographer. He held several solo exhibitions and published Photographs of Pun Yet-pore and Technique in Photography. Pun has a wide range of subjects in his photographic works. They have demonstrated his originality in concepts and meticulous technique in photography. Subtle and sensational, Pun’s portraits have demonstrated his distinctive use of light and shadow and a professional level of salon photography.