daniel wu and shu qi. photo by wing shya.
“I’d rather work with 1st class gangsters than bad accountants. Gangsters have more pride, they’re more ethical…if they want to fuck you they always kiss you first.”
Yû Aoi.
Anthony Wong: Chow Yun Fat, Alain Delon, Charles Bronson and Sai Ming Lee all in one.
“I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie.”
HE: You are like a thousand women in one…
SHE: It’s because you don’t know me. That’s why.
HE: Perhaps that’s not the only reason.
SHE: It’s a rather nice idea, being a thousand women in one for you.
(She kisses his shoulder and snuggles into the hollow of that shoulder. Her head is facing the open window, facing Hiroshima, the night. A man passes in the street and coughs. [We don’t see him, only hear him.] She raises herself.)
Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour. A film by Alain Resnais.
“An image must be transformed by contact with other images as is color by contact with other colors. A blue is not the same blue beside a green, a yellow, a red. No art without transformation.”
CLIENTS/PUBLICATIONS:
The Hollywood Reporter
The Wall Street Journal
Monocle Magazine
0086 Magazine
Computers Arts UK
Latina Magazine
Getty Images
Pig Magazine
Ruby Mag
SOMA Magazine
Société Perrier
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 - CHI SEEN! K&K Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2011 - It Takes More. Getty Images Gallery. London, UK.
2010 - Intersection for the Arts 45th Anniversary. San Francisco, CA.
2009 - The Art of Photography. San Diego, CA.
2008 - Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character. San Francisco, CA.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
2010 - Huan Dao (DP)- Los Angeles Asian Film Festival Official Selection
2009 - The Things We Carry (Stills) - San Francisco International Film Festival Official Selection
2009 - Better Than Blue (Stills) - VC Film Festival Official Selection
2008 - This Will All Make Perfect Sense Someday (DP) - Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection
BIOGRAPHY:
1980 - Born and raised in San Francisco.
2000 - 2003 - B.A. Visual Arts/Film, University of California, San Diego
2003 - 2011 - Living and working in Los Angeles, California
2011 - Currently located in Taipei, Taiwan.
CONTACT:
seanmarclee (at) gmail.com