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"D'ELE is a creative agency dedicated to artist management and full service production. We are based in Shanghai with partners in Milan and London. For over 10 years we have provided seamless and dynamic visual solutions to a wide range of international clients and advertising agencies.

In partnership with Livello6 and 1806, we are proud to represent international visual artists within photography, illustration, CGI, film, and animation. Our artists are recognised globally with awards such as Cannes Lions and Promax BDAs. 

Additionally, D'ELE provides full service production, all customised to the specific needs of our clients."

''Amanacliq is a full service creative visual solution company dedicated to the dynamic Asia advertising market. With our partners, Amana inc from Tokyo and Bernstein Andriulli from New York, we are able to provide multiple disciplined visual solutions across photography, film, illustration, CG, sculpture, digital art and so on, as well as equipment rental and postproduction work.

With the experience of working with most multinational clients and advertising agencies, we’ve been keeping sparking fresh exciting ideas for the advertising industry and clients including Apple, Adidas, Coca-Cola, Disneyland, Nike, P&G, Bose, Chrysler, Lincoln, Pepsi, Unilever, McDonald's and many more. Feel free to contact us for profile requests and more information.''

''Central Studios continues to partner with global brands to produce memorable content. Over the past 10 years, our focus has been on providing unparalleled client services, creative solutions, and giving each project the support it needs for success.  

With the recent Puma SS20 campaign, our production team brought together all the key pieces needed to make this campaign a success. Working with both leading celebrity photographer Yu Cong and our in-house product specialist Muran, the whole campaign captured this line of footwear with fun pops of colour and playful shadows. 

Completing the 360 asset delivery,  the CS retouching team finessed Yu Cong’s portraits of Liu Hao Ran 刘昊然, NaZha 娜扎, and Yangyang 杨洋 bringing these quirky campaign key visuals to life.   

CS is the one-stop-shop for image making in Shanghai with great studios, a full range of in-house services and a friendly, bilingual team eager to work with like-minded people. We are here willing and able to execute international requests for all levels of photography for your visual assets supply chain.''

"Bloc Productions is a print and video production company based in Shanghai and Beijing. Our specialty lies in China where our team of multilingual producers have produced hundreds of print, editorial and video campaigns for a wide range of commercial and editorial clients over the last decade.

In the last few months we have been fortunate to service campaigns for Burberry, vivo, Nike, and Adidas. 

We’d love to chat about your next project, so drop us a line and get in touch! For more information, visit Bloc’s website or join us on Instagram to keep up to date with all of our latest work."

Red+Plus is a Shanghai-based creative team consisting of globally awarded photographers and young talents, directors, stylists, illustrators, make-up artists, hairstylists and fashion consultants.

"We are a group of passionate people happy to share our knowledge and expertise with our clients to meet their requests and develop their ideas. Red+Plus is proud to be a point of reference for the production of photography and motion campaigns, as well as creative projects for both fashion and advertisement. We represent an international pool of artists, each one gifted with a unique artistic style."

Red+Plus, together with the talents represented, work to develop concepts and ideas and to make them happen. "We support our clients, from the creative and conceptual direction up to set coordination, with special attention to detail."

With 2,000m² of space in Shanghai, Red+Plus also owns three in-house NY-style studios complete with equipment rental services; top-notch photo studios for creative use, from still life to cars, fashion shows to special events.

Red Cactus was first established in 2003 with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai. The presence of these three locations grants the company insight and freedom to produce great projects anywhere in Asia with a high level of service.

"We love what we do and believe in a win-win mantra in all aspects of the business, thus creating a positive shooting environment that inspires creativity and all of us to be at our best!"

''Get ready for the rebound!''

As summer is approaching, Hong Kong is one of the earliest cities to recover from the current pandemic and it means we can now enjoy this summer with no boundaries! 

Many clients are already getting ahead to produce campaigns and visual content for a quick financial rebound in Asia! As Hong Kong city can provide plenty of locations such as, beaches, nature, urban architecture and modern interiors. Many productions have now shifted to this continent due to the lockdown.  

Frackeye Production provides photography and videography production services on all scales to international teams, creatives and brands. Our art department in Asia and location options are extensive.

Frackeye Studio’s visions and artwork ranges from high fashion to advertising, natural to luxurious lifestyle, complex compositing to subtle details. Our inspirations come from everyday challenges and the mix of east and west culture.

Visit their Facebook and Linkedin page to see more and get in contact.

Based in Shanghai and Los Angeles, 5th Avenue Productions is a full-service production and post production company specialising in photo / video productions, celebrity endorsement consulting and international artist representation.

"Our team has over 20 years production experience and deep understanding for both western culture and the asian market. We offer efficient and cost-effective services for advertising, fashion, editorial and TV commercials.

Services include: photo / video production and post production, product shoots for e-commerce, celebrity endorsement consulting, artist representation, models casting, studio & gear rental, location scouting.

Our studio in Shanghai is open for shooting products and still life images for e-commerce. Our studio has capacity of producing a large volume of still life images weekly.

Some of our clients: Maserati, Aston Martin, L’oreal, Adidas, UPS, Disney, GSK, BASF, iQOO, Artengo, Kalenji, Nabaiji, UBS, Schindler, IBM, Abbott, Elle, Vogue, Look, GQ, Hyundai, Lux, Estee Lauder, Neutrogena and many more.

We also provide production services in Europe, USA and some major Asian areas such as Thailand, Taipei and Hong Kong."

Sharpen Studio is a full service photo and film production house based and operating in Milan, Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai.

''We are the perfect bridge between Asia and Europe, we can help you produce any photo or video, we can offer you the best talents as photographers, hair stylist, make-up, models and the best locations or the best rental photo video studios. 

We often work with large international teams from China, Italy, USA and Japan. Working with us is like working at home.''

Recent clients include Vogue, Terranova Pop Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel, Adidas, Intel, Apple, Samsung, Cluse, Range Rover, Pantene, Kappa, Chopard, Tissot, Dior, Element Fresh, Lapargay, Dentsu, Cacharel, Shu Uemara, YouTube, Uber, Pop Magazine, Opera Bombana, and many more.

"High energy. High impact. Welcome to FLATMIND Productions. 

FLATMIND is a full-service video production company with more than 15 years of experience in China and Europe.

We are passionate about telling your unique story with corporate marketing videos, product videos, commercial and social media campaign videos, fashion films and documentaries.

We take care of the whole video lifecycle, including creativity, production, post-production and CGI.

We have worked for clients such as Campari Group, Bvlgari, Prada, Bayer, Covestro, PepsiCo, Cisco, and Oppo.

FLATMIND transforms creative vision into reality. Together, we can increase your business and achieve your goals."

Yibi Hu is a multi-award winning visual artist and director with a diverse and eclectic body of work. Before setting up Future Power Station he was a senior member of the BBC’s in-house creative team.

His work experiments with 2D illustration, stop motion, hand drawn and 3D animation; creating TV commercials, brand identity and visual installations for high profile brands such as BBC, BOSCH, Huawei, SK-II, Sky, Nike and The FA.

Yibi has directed music videos for some of the world’s best known artists including George Michael, Joey Bada $$, Faithless, Zero 7 and Beyoncé.

Future Power Station is a leading London-based creative animation studio specialising in immersive mixed media stories. 

Formed by a bunch of enthusiastic animation artists, with a client list that includes some of the biggest brands in the world, their extensive experience covers high-end 2D, 3D animation and stunning stop-frame. 

FPS thoroughly understands film production and post production. With a hands-on approach, they can blend animation expertise seamless into live action.

Future Power Station is represented by D'ELE Management. 

Originally from mainland China, Jing is an illustrator living in England, the epicentre of eccentricity and creativity. 

With her clients mostly from the advertising industry, she has been working for clients including the European Parliament, General Electric, HSBC, IBM, Canon, Samsung, Adobe and many others.

Jing is known for her intricate style and often associated with whimsical information design. (If you are after simplicity or minimalism, you should probably go elsewhere.) Her work has been seen around the world by London and Parisian commuters at the underground stations, on a gigantic sculpture touring in Middle East for Dubai Expo, on suitcases by Canadian travellers, on the maps of theme parks in Florida and Australia, on the buses and newspapers in America.

She travels around to work with clients and give talks. Apart from that, Jing has also been a part of the jury of D&AD Award 2018.

Jing Zhang is represented by Amanacliq. 

China-based and Singaporean-born Andy Wee has been shooting both Chinese and international brands, from Asia's Mazda and Toyota to Germany's Mercedes-Benz, Audi, VW and Skoda to USA' Jeep, Chevrolet and Ford to Chinese brands like BAIC Beiqi, SAIC HongQi, FAW Mazda, Geely and many upcoming electric cars like NIO and DongFeng's SF5.

The recent launch of the CX-4, Mazda's Asian variant of American CX-30, to both Chinese and Japanese clients has been a linguistics test for Andy's team. The shoot has gone from studio to city to mountain roads, all in a week's work.

Andy has worked with numerous agencies, and his team is able to speak both English and most Asian languages, and thus able to communicate clearly with everyone involved in both pre-production and post-production.

Pietro Ansaldi has been freelancing since 2005 and has been based in Shanghai since 2013. An experienced photographer, he mainly shoots commercial product images but has also developed skills across interior, architecture and food photography.

Pietro's strong passion for photography helps him to deliver the highest quality images. He can provide a complete service, from initial concept through to final idea, satisfying all client requirements along the way.

He creates a comfortable working atmosphere on-set for both creative teams and clients alike. The daily goal for Pietro is to achieve stunning and unique images.

With 15 years of living and working experience in Shanghai, Anne-Sophie has been commissioned for various editorial and commercial projects across a wide range of subjects and is comfortable working either alone or in a team on bigger sets.

Fluent in German, English, French and proficient in spoken and written Chinese, she is at ease balancing different cultural elements while always maintaining a sense of integrity and trust and a curiosity to explore new ideas and concepts.

Her love for colour, light and collaboration combine in portraiture and fashion but often transpire into interiors, food and travel vignettes. They can range from simple candid moments to the more elaborate whimsical set-ups that like to inquire (and often inspire) the every day life.

Hiro is an award-winning still life photographer shooting campaigns for international brands. He spends most of his time in the studios in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and delivers stunning photographic visuals on a daily basis.

Hiro started his career in New York City, where he learned exceptional lighting skills to draw elegant lines by strobe lights. Now he resides in Japan, where he sharpened his minimalistic approach towards photography. Hiro is expanding his career by shooting still life movies in collaboration with beauty brands.

His rapidly growing list of clients includes: Lancôme, Estée Lauder, Clé De Peau Beauté, M.A.C Cosmetics, L'oréal Paris, Shiseido, Clinique, Shu Uemura, Olay, Maybelline New York, Max Factor, Kose, Albion, Tsubaki, Lux, Nivea, Kate Spade New York, United Colors of Benetton, Apple, Panasonic, Vogue Japan and many more.

Ehrin Macksey is a photographer and filmmaker working across east Asia since 2006. Starting his career as an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker, Ehrin applied his documentary visual approach and style to commercial and corporate clients looking to produce authentic and unique photos and films to represent their company and brands.

His visual storytelling is often commissioned by Fortune 500 companies looking to produce annual reports, corporate social responsibility reports and image libraries in both photography and video to help connect their audience to their unique stories. "We live for storytelling and we love making beautiful images that evoke emotion from an audience. The stories we tell convey the feelings and drives of our clients in a honest and thoughtful way. Storytelling is what gets us out of bed early in the morning to get the 'wow' shots that keep your audience engaged. It is the breath, blood and soul of our company and it is why after over a decade in Asia we keep succeeding for our clients. Put that energy and passion to work for your company's brand and let us tell your story."

Clients include Google, Apigee, Netflix, Siemens, IBM, Dufry, Booking.com, Expedia, Netcompany, Cloudflare, Intel, Brenntag, Citibank, Buhler, Gebo Cermex, Trumpf, BBC, CNN, Microsoft, Ford Motors, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Forbes Magazine, Scenic Tours, Singapore Airlines, Turkish Airlines,  World Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, VIB Bank, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNAIDS, Hear The World Foundation, Hilton Hotels, Hyatt Hotels, M•A•C Cosmetics, Redhat, Simitomo Corporation,  Travel & Leisure USA, Ogilvy & Mather, GREY Group, Masan Group and many more.

Chiara Ye was born in China and at the age of she five she moved to Parma in Italy, a country well known for its rich artistic and cultural heritage.  

In Parma she began studying art at high school, where she developed a passion for the visual arts, theatre and film. During her studies, Chiara attained a comprehensive knowledge of the arts as a whole, coupled with an innate creative and fresh “eye”, that was seen as totally unique in her field. 

Once reunified with her origins in China, she had the opportunity to experience a broad range of challenges, and opened herself up to embracing new food, style and culture. Chiara’s works display evident influences of art throughout different periods of history, from Renaissance to Neoclassicism all the way to Modern Art and Contemporary.

Yuyang Liu was born in Sichuan in 1991 and he is now based between Chengdu and Shanghai. With his unique vision and perspective, as well as the sincerity, patience, and adaptability required for documentary photography, he covers issues that range from the daily life in North Korea, to the transformation of the energy industry in Shanxi; from fishermen’s work in Senegal to young Uyghur teens dreams about football; from the massive urbanisation process in China to a Cambodian music school aiming for everyone; and from an LGTB wedding in the sea of Japan to ordinary people’s stories in Chunyun, the CNY Transportation in Guangzhou. Yuyang Liu tells stories with pictures.

He became a jury of ADC 98th Annual Awards in the photography section, has been selected as one of the 'Nine Chinese Photographers You Need to Follow' by TIME magazine and emerging photographer of PDN 30 in 2017. He has won Magnum Foundation Human Rights and Photography Fellowship, Ian Parry Scholarship, and Abigail Cohen Fellowship in Documentary Photography.

His work has been published on TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and exhibited in New York, London, Shanghai, Paris, and Beijing. He collaborates with NGOs such as UNICEF, Greenpeace, WWF, and Save the Children. He insists unique and meaningful moments can convey the brand spirit and campaign storytelling, and real moments can touch the audiences. His commercial clients include Apple, Nike, Airbnb, Harbin Beer, Xiaomi, and JD.

Yuyang Liu is represented by Bloc Productions.

Ele Jin, founder of D’ELE, is a visual artist, whose individual works includes photography, art direction, graphic design, film and animation. As the leading photographer and executive producer of D’ELE she has overseen numerous commercial projects for Chinese clients, working with well-known international artists in the field of both imagery and film.

Born in Shanghai, 1979, Ele graduated from Shanghai JiaoTong University with a BA degree in Graphic Design. She then went on exploring fashion photography in the UK, achieved an MA at the University of Central England, then studied in a leading art college, The London College of Printing, obtaining a distinction in Professional Photography Practice. She returned to Shanghai and founded her own studio in 2003.

Having worked in the advertising industry for over 15 years, Ele has obtained the unique eyes and skills for delivering eye-catching ad campaigns. Her broad knowledge of different art forms and visual solutions has brought the studio projects which are trendy and have a mixed visual style, and provides each artist comprehensive and efficient communication throughout the collaboration process.

Ele Jin is represented by D'ELE Management.

Cherry Li's keen eye for food photography is a natural pairing of her gourmandise with her dedication. Upon receiving her BFA in photography from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, she started travelling the world in search of authentic food stories. After years in France, Cherry now divides her time between China and California, both the homes of her childhood. 

Cherry's unique visual sensitivity and keen eye for detail has won her multiple professional awards and gained her clients such as Anchor New Zealand, Lady M, Tourism Authority of Thailand, Travel+Leisure, Condé Nast Traveller, GQ, Malaysia Airlines, Dragonair, Wall Street Journal, Theme, Wallpaper, The Cleaver Quarterly, Qatar Airways, British Airways and Australian Gourmet Traveller.

Edwin Datoc is a photographer and filmmaker who is renowned for his striking cinematic style. His appreciation and familiarity with diverse cultures reflects a unique international perspective to his work. His inspiration comes varied from varied sources: travel, design, architecture, music and cinema.

Edwin has shot editorial assignments for Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and Tatler. He has photographed campaigns for Marie France Van Damme, Costume National, Esprit, L’Oreal, LANDMARK HK, G2000, Kim Robinson Cosmetics, Agent Provocateur and Fiorucci.

Edwin’s corporate portfolio includes Merrill Lynch, Hong Kong Land, Xerox Corporation, Asia Pacific Land, and Reuters. 

Edwin currently lives between Hong Kong, New York and Sydney.

Goldie is a photographer and director currently based in Tokyo and working primarily throughout Asia. In Japan Goldie works closely with a bilingual producer to create and execute campaigns, and content creation across both stills and video. With a long background as an advertising photographer in both London and Sydney, he now calls Tokyo home, inspired by it’s amasing culture and the fresh inspiration.

Goldie has recently worked with brands such as Mastercard, BMW, Audi, Paypal, Redbull, Rakuten, The NBA, Guinness, Citroen and Fujitsu to create a variety of creative and engaging media.

With a long background in photography, his directing has gone from strength to strength as he has created documentaries, and short films that are winning multiple festival awards.

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