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.
— Wong Kar-Wai. On the difference between Hong Kong and Hollywood.

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.
— JLG

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.
— Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer.

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

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