VIBErations Episode 20 - Jo Farrell

VIBErations podcast Ep 20. Jo Farrell @ VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong on 25th March 2021

Jo Lodder & Catherine Cormack charity hike :- https://give.asia/campaign/hike-for-freedom 

BIO

Jo Farrell is an award-winning black and white photographer and cultural anthropologist. Born in London, England she has been based in Hong Kong for the past 12 years. Her photography work focuses on traditions and cultures that are dying out, including the project “Living History: Bound Feet Women of China.” Jo uses black and white film and shoots on a Hasselblad camera.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards for her work on bound feet including a Jacob Riis Award, Black & White Spider Award, Center for Fine Art Photography and Women In Photography International winner juried by Mary Ellen Mark. She has had solo exhibitions in London, San Francisco and Hong Kong and has been included in group shows in New York, LA and Denver, Colorado.

Her project has received critical acclaim and has been published internationally including The Smithsonian magazine, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Stern magazine, Time Out, Fast Co., International Business Times and the Sydney Morning Herald. She has spoken at TEDxWanchai and TEDxWarwick and an “in-conversation” events hosted by The Women’s Foundation HK (May 2015) and at Asia House in London (June 2015). She has held talks at Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford), Barts Pathology Museum (London), the V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum), Rayko (San Francisco), Blue Lotus Gallery (Hong Kong) and numerous organizations such as the AWA, Friends of CUHK Museum, Rotary Club .

Jo has also done live television interviews on RTHK ((The Works), CNN and the BBC News (Insight) and has been a guest speaker on Monocole radio and RTHK3 (Hong Kong). Jo@JoFarrell.com You can view my website at www.livingHERstoryphotography.com

10 Questions

1. Favourite book or author? Wild Swans by Jung Chang & The Private Life of Chairman Mao

2. Favourite musical artist? Nina Simone & Michael Nyman

3. Preferred drink? Gin infused with Earl Grey Tea

4. Life motto? Look the other Way

5. Favourite hk walk? Chai Wan by Cemetery

6. Favourite hk restaurant? Peak Lookout/Boat House/Dai Pai Dongs

7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak – what would you do? Photograph it in detail

8. Best advice you were given? Focus don't generalise

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… It's safe

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? Chai Wan and Shueng Wan