Biography

Ringo Chan, an artist, photographer, and marketer based in Hong Kong. He graduated his MA Photography in The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in 2019, and his BSc Psychology in 2014. Apart from rich photographic creativity experiences, he has over 6 years experiences in marketing, public relations, media, magazine, financial and charity event organization. In 2016, Ringo completed a diploma in digital photography for advertising, and a microfilm production course. Afterwards, he began his commercial photography career as a freelancer.

Ringo is interested in doing different kinds of photo. Particularly in architecture, documentary, portrait, pet, still life, travel and infrared photography. Besides commercial works, Ringo is highly concerned about pet protection issues. In 2017, he participated in a charity pet photography exhibition (‘FOREVER LOVE’), and then he held another exhibition (‘YEAR OF THE DOG’) again in 2018. Both exhibitions were being held along with a pet adoption day, they are aimed to promote the pet protection and adoption culture in Hong Kong. Apart from these, since Ringo undertook his MA Photography, he started interested in photo books and contemporary art photography. ‘Difficulty’, is a contemporary photo project done by him in 2019 during the MA Photography degree. It is a series of images representing human’s coffee cup consumption activities and the environmental footprint behind a coffee cup.