Choen Lee and Shuz Yap.

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choen lee

Hi, my name is Choen. Lee is my surname.

 Most of my childhood was spent in school. When I was not doing that, I was watching cartoons of the Japanese and American varieties, Cantonese comedies of the nonsensical persuasion, building miniature diorama sets with lots of soldiers, reading comic books and then drawing them. In my late teens I moved to London to be trained as an architect, but somehow I just spent more time mingling with artists (starved), philosophers (dead), gypsies (unmoved), freedom fighters (failed), drug dealers (jailed), thieves (cheap goods) and bankers (prime something).

It was also around this time that I discovered the joys of stupid ads, English humour, hitch hiking, the few good pints, bookshops, museums, old classic movies, girls, and more importantly, the photography dark room, because it was this love affair that eventually led me away from the world of architecture and into the world of professional photography. 

I now operate from a small photography based creative studio (bunny+bearpictures) from which I spend my spare time recreating memories of pop culture from my youth. For work, I shoot a wide range of subjects - portraits, from the famous to the everyman, and still life of different scales from jewels to architecture and landscapes.

Whenever I am fashionable, I shoot fashion too. Most of these end up in editorials and commercials, in Malaysia and other countries. Mostly I do these to put food into the fridge, pay the utilities, purchase new studio gear and buy flowers for the lovely wife.

(And she helped proof read this too).
 
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shuz

Il mio nome è Shuz.

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Q: Aspect Network? Or www.choen.com the studio? Or bunny+bearpictures? Which one?

      

A: aspect network was a small ad agency run by KC Lee. In 2004, choen came in and used it as the company for his photographic work. And if you have dealt with us, you would have noticed that all billings and invoices still go through aspect network sdn. bhd.

'bunny+bearpictures' was created in 2008 as the photography studio of aspect network. It was partly named after Shuz's nickname amongst her friends- bunny.

'bunny+bearpictures' is the name we use for all our work today.

www.choen.com is choen's personal domain name on the world wide web. It still leads to this website.

aspect network = www.choen.com = bunny+bearpictures. It's actually not all that complicated.

 

Trumpet blowing:

Since 2006, our work has been winning some industrial awards (or at least winning them for our clients because we are not the kind of glory seekers who submit our work to festivals or competitions).

Below is an incomplete list:

MPA Best Cover Bronze and Silver 2006

Kancil Bronze 2006

New York Festival Gold 2007

IFRA Best Cover Bronze 2007

MPA Best Cover Gold 2009

 

Our equipment and studio:

Some people find this information to be really important. To us, we use whatever that will work for that particular project or campaign.

We use a wide variety of cameras, from Hasselblad digital medium format cameras (amazing detail and picture quality in a controlled lighting environment) to Canon DSLR (brilliant in low light situations, for that raw feel).Because certain jobs call for the look, we still keep a variety of film cameras, from 35mm to medium format.

For lighting, we use equipment Profoto. We like it because it's very robust and the light quality is very consistent. Very often we use the sun that circles our planet too. That's the best light source in the world.

Our studio is not the biggest, but has a usable open floor space of about 1,400 square feet. One length of a wall is a 20+ feet wide white cyclorama. We have shot in and built up to 3 different small but elaborate sets in this space.

The fridge at our pantry area is very well stocked with hard liquor and beer. Normally people don't think it's a good idea to drink whisky in the morning, so we are also quite well stocked up with drinking water, carbonated soda, drinking chocolate, tea and coffee (ok mostly instant coffee).

 
Our work culture:

As we are not in the retail business, we normally don't turn up in the studio when there are no work (pre, production or post).

I reckon that there is no need to unneccessarily tax our natural resources for electrical power. Especially when I has been running the studio alone for the past year.

 
Our client list:

Whoah, for this I will need Shuz to list it all down.