The legal team with Frank and his father (extreme right) outside the courthouse.
From the plains of Namibia to one of the world’s most crowded cities, from the shadows of apartheid to the flames of conflict in Vietnam, Frank’s cameras have borne witness to the good, the bad and the many hues of existence in between.
biography
Photographing shackled black prisoners as they waited, at a Johannesburg railway station, to be sent to a labour camp re-routed his own life. He was charged in court under apartheid law, his South African citizenship was rescinded and he left the country immediately.
The experience made him an overseas photojournalist. In 1971, Frank joined the Hong Kong bureau of LIFE magazine. His photographic essay on Ping Pong diplomacy that year - before President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing in 1972 - won him a citation from the Overseas Press Club of America.
In 1977, he set up his publishing house, FormAsia Books. Frank’s journeys have taken him from Africa to Asia; his desire to preserve diverse cultures, through word and image, has never wavered.
