Lee Fook Chee

Lee Fook Chee
Lee Fook Chee
Born	December 1, 1927 [1]; Singapore
Died	September 12, 2012 (aged 84)[2]; Hong Kong
Occupation	Photographer

Lee Fook Chee was a Singaporean photographer based in Hong Kong from 1947. He worked intermittently as a journeyman photographer at The Peak from the summer of 1948 [3] until sometime in 1955 when he instead started selling pictures of famous landscapes and streets of Hong Kong to tourists.[4] With the popularization of colour photography Lee's black and white picture started to look outdated and revenue from sales reduced. After trying to sell his pictures in other spots, eventually he gave up the business of photography and ran a grocery shop in Wan Chai with his wife from 1961 onwards.[5]

Around 2003 Lee returned to The Peak for financial reasons to sell new prints of his old 1950's pictures. Following the suggestion of Laurence Lai, a Hong Kong photographer and gallery owner, he also started to sell contemporary colour prints of the same landscapes he had photographed before, in order to highlight the changes the city had experienced. [6]

A chance encounter in 2010 with author Edward Stokes eventually led in 2015 to the publication by The Photographic Heritage Foundation of a book of Lee's pictures. Unfortunately, Lee died in 2012 before seeing the book published.[7]

References

Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.
Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.
Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.
Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 32&33. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.
Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.
Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.
Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.

External links with photos by Lee Fook Chee

Chou, Oliver (2015-08-12). "GALLERY: Pics show Hong Kong in the 1950s through the eyes of a self-taught photographer". Retrieved 2017-01-29.
"HKFP Lens: Lee Fook Chee's old photographs of Hong Kong in the 1950s". 2017-01-02. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
Edward Stokes' web page

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[1] Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.

[2] Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.

[3] Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.

[4] Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 32&33. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.

[5] Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.

[6] Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.

[7] Chiu, Patricia; Stokes, Edward (2015). Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Photographic Heritage Foundation with The Commercial Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-962-07-5657-3.