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HS Liu
was born in Hong Kong, to Mainland Chinese parents in 1951. At age 5, he was sent to school in Fujian, until his parents brought him to Hong Kong age 9. The experience left a lasting impression of the poverty that dogged China through the 20th century. Liu remained in Hong Kong until 16 years of age, when he left fro New York, to study political science at Hunter College. He also took a course in photography. Liu received his first assignment from Time magazine in 1978 as one of the first foreign correspondents permitted entry when China’s relations with the West were normalised. He joined the AP in 1978. His Chinese identity allowed him access to a side of daily life that the foreigners were denied: the images, published as China After Mao (Penguin, 1983), influenced an entire generation of emerging photo-journalists and art photographers in the Mainland.
China was the beginning of a 16-year career as an AP photojournalist in Los Angeles, New Delhi, Seoul and Moscow. In 1991, he shared a Pulitzer Prize and Overseas Press Club Award for the coverage of the collapse of the former Soviet Union, images published in. USSR, Collapse of an Empire (The Associated Press 1992.). Liu's coverage of June 4th in 1989 won him Picture of Year from the University of Missouri, and Best Photographer by the Associated Press Managing Editors, also in 1989. In 2005, ParisPhoto magazine named Liu Heung Shing one of the 100 most influential figures in contemporary photography.
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