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).

-January 2010