Candice Lake

Australian born, Candice Lake is a London-based photographer, blogger, designer and Contributing Style Editor at Vogue. has appeared in campaigns for Ralph Lauren and Versace, cat walked for Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Chanel, photographed editorials for Vogue and Glamour magazine, and collaborated with Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo and Tiffany & Co.   She’s been featured in the world’s glossiest magazines, has her own fashion label ‘Candidate by Candice Lake‘, was named on US Vogue’s best dressed list, is TRESemmé’s Global Brand Ambassador and is the Contributing Style Editor at Vogue Australia. She connects with my project because of her passion to shoot on the street and capturing fashionable moments that occur on the street. 

Tommy Ton

Tommy Ton is driven by an obsessive and extensive knowledge of fashion design. As a street photographer, he is admired for the wit and energy of his stylish shots. Yet as a portraitist of the leading stylists and editors whom he photographs in and around the catwalk shows, Ton is revered for his rare ability to pick up on the garments and styling details that forecast the trends of the forthcoming seasons, often before they are previewed on the catwalk. He really connects with this unit as his fashion sense is always on point, he always wants to photoshoot latest trends and that’s amazing as I was doing the same. He is definitely inspirational because of his clean and sharp shots of his model. The lighting and colours are always on point and I understand that a lot of work is put into one shot. 

Muyi Xiao

She is passionate about telling stories of individuals that can reflect larger social issues, including gender, cross-generational relationship, and poverty in China. Her project, Teenage Marriages, received wide attention at home and abroad over the last two years, in which she photographed a village in rural Yunnan province, where teenage girls marry and have children at their own will. She inspired me because of how great she is at documenting young people’s marriages. Her passion is to inform people how life is hard in other countries and how they can’t do anything because of the countries’ political situation. I am in a way documenting a sense of fashion that shouldn’t be happening, merging traditional clothes and luxury clothes isn’t something normal because the tradition could not be seen as respected anymore or people from China could think I’m offending them.

YIN CHAO

Yin Chao is known for his work as a famous fashion photographer in China. He has deep cooperation with many international brands. As the most active fashion photographer in China, his influence on fashion photography is immeasurable. In the early days, the media praised him as “a soul photographer.”, “Open your heart to feel and capture the moment instead of relying on your eyes”, “He believes to capture a person’s inner world by photography”. Yin Chao doesn’t think photography is only a job. Through photography, he conveys his attitude towards life, fashion, affection, love, friendship, everywhere and everything in the world. Yin Chao hopes his works can make the audience feel the power and love to acquire inner peace. Yin allowed me to understand the china in a new way, he taught me to turns objects as if they were involved in a relationship with the model. For example, the white rose in front of the model’s mouth could mean purity and that is her way of expressing herself. In my instance, I made this connection through an object (heavy padlock). In one shot my model is linked with a tree through a chain and padlock to show their relationship. 

Kiki Xue

Kiki Xue is a young photographer, is really into fashion and photography which he pursues as a dream of his life. Photography, seen as not only records but also creation, means a lot to him. He uses it to carry his feeling with each detail, each expression, each emotion in eyes, faces and movements. Photography is fulfilled with magical aspects. Kiki loves women and develops more shot to record women’s hearts. In most situations, he combines his own feeling with theirs and then shows these feelings out through pictures. He always believes that photography is a way to record the simplest moment without any artificial. Women’s true beauty inside their heart could be revealed through the unique way which makes them more attractive and amazing. On the way to realize his dream, he always insists on the most natural feeling-be simple and true. Xue’s images are known for rich and saturated colours, similar to the aesthetic of Paolo Roversi, a hero of the young Chinese photographer.

Yuan Lu

Yuan (Circle) Lu is a Chinese born photographer now based in Shanghai, China.Lu’s exaggerated aesthetic is formulated with a significant amount of post processing, combining photography with collage, acrylics, and digital painting. Yuan really inspired me by his use of compositions in his shoots. I really enjoy looking through his portfolio and see how he used art and sculpture to combine two genres of art together to create something really interesting and effective. I could really use his technique in the future and explore fashion and culture through his eyes. For instacen having a shot of a model with a sharp jawline and then having blood rubbed all over her face and then scan that as a overall photo. This will include art within a photo.

Dongyu Wang

Coming from an illustration background, Dongyu Wang’s photos feature bright colours and a sharp, playful style. He states“I love to create, dare to try, and constantly challenge myself. Whether it is a photograph or a piece of artwork, it has to have its own unique style,”which is so wise because he would create anything just as long as it’s in an art form. This really spot my attention into his work; the bright colours and compositions really work so well together. In addition to outstanding photographers, he also works with a rich variety of carefully chosen stylists, makeup artists, hair stylists and other creative talents, from the planning of a project right through to post production.