The selection criteria of photographic competition at the Hong Kong Products Exhibition

The photographic competition at the Exhibitions began in 1950 with the organiser requiring that all participating photographers had to echo the core theme of each Exhibition in their works. As Deputy Manager of CMA’s promotion department, Fung Yuen Hon served as a judge in these contests. His criterion of selecting the winning entries was how well the photos depicted the multitude of people who appeared in the venue and made the Exhibition bustle! If photos only focused on specific manufacturers, they would not win as the CMA did not want people misunderstand the exhibition biased toward any one particular brand. Any photos not selected were subsequently collected by the participants.

Date 2008-12-18
Organization Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong
Period Exhibitions of Hong Kong Products (1950-1960), Exhibitions of Hong Kong Products (1961-1974)
Document Type Oral History
Material Type Audio
Collection Hong Kong Products Exhibition
Source Hong Kong Memory Project Oral History Interview
Repository Hong Kong Memory Project
Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project
Accession No. HKPE-OH-FYH-7
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