Fritz Hoffmann is an American photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Fritz has a creative knack for telling a story. He has done that with his pictures for an extensive list of publications. This work has taken him to many destinations to create documentary style narratives on a wide range of subjects. As a frequent contributor to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, Fritz has crafted stories in China, Cambodia, Greenland and the U.S.A.
Recognized for his photography work in China as a resident photojournalist based in Shanghai from 1995-2008, Fritz was the first foreign photographer since 1949 to receive accreditation from China’s Foreign Ministry to reside outside Beijing, the political capital. He studied Mandarin at East China University of Science and Technology and at Shanghai University Academy of Fine Art. He has photographed in each of China’s provinces and municipalities numerous times. China continues to be a primary interest for him.
Prior to his move to China, Fritz established his place as a respected international photo-correspondent while working with JB PICTURES in New York. Under the JB banner, he moved his base of operations to Nashville, Tennessee just before the first term of US President Bill Clinton increased interest in the American South. He opened the NETWORK PHOTOGRAPHERS (UK), Shanghai bureau in 1997. In 2002 Fritz co-founded documentCHINA, a picture agency based in Shanghai with online distribution for documentary photography of China.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Fritz was raised in a large family and began photography as a kid hitchhiking across the Pacific Northwest and printing his pictures in the home darkroom. He honed his photography skills while slinging king crab in Dutch Harbor, Alaska and on cycling trips across the USA. He learned journalism by working at newspapers in; Seattle, Washington, Charleston, West Virginia and Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Fritz Hoffmann
Fritz Hoffmann is an American photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Fritz has a creative knack for telling a story. He has done that with his pictures for an extensive list of publications. This work has taken him to many destinations to create documentary style narratives on a wide range of subjects. As a frequent contributor to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, Fritz has crafted stories in China, Cambodia, Greenland and the U.S.A.
Recognized for his photography work in China as a resident photojournalist based in Shanghai from 1995-2008, Fritz was the first foreign photographer since 1949 to receive accreditation from China’s Foreign Ministry to reside outside Beijing, the political capital. He studied Mandarin at East China University of Science and Technology and at Shanghai University Academy of Fine Art. He has photographed in each of China’s provinces and municipalities numerous times. China continues to be a primary interest for him.
Prior to his move to China, Fritz established his place as a respected international photo-correspondent while working with JB PICTURES in New York. Under the JB banner, he moved his base of operations to Nashville, Tennessee just before the first term of US President Bill Clinton increased interest in the American South. He opened the NETWORK PHOTOGRAPHERS (UK), Shanghai bureau in 1997. In 2002 Fritz co-founded documentCHINA, a picture agency based in Shanghai with online distribution for documentary photography of China.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Fritz was raised in a large family and began photography as a kid hitchhiking across the Pacific Northwest and printing his pictures in the home darkroom. He honed his photography skills while slinging king crab in Dutch Harbor, Alaska and on cycling trips across the USA. He learned journalism by working at newspapers in; Seattle, Washington, Charleston, West Virginia and Knoxville, Tennessee.