Subject

Lily Ling (Instagram)

Location

Financial District, Vancouver

Gear Used

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Shoot Description

I love working with Lily both as a makeup artist and model. She’s ever-positive, hard-working, full of ideas, gracious, and patient — all of the hallmarks of a great collaborator.

Then there’s her AESTHETIC. I often tell her she looks like she stepped out of a Singapore Airlines ad. Such poise and warmth. BIG SMILE. You should see the work she did with Dražen.

To top it off, she always brings me food and cat memes. That’s a premium friendship. Very good.

Gushing aside, I got in the habit of composing tight and abstracting my environments. Working on taking a step back and reintegrating locations into my images.