china Nov 2020

RED+PLUS was founded in 2009, the young fashion agency has grown to represent international photographers, stylists, creative directors, hair and makeup artists and illustrators. RED+PLUS also offers entire project production service, which includes creative development, casting, location scouting, set design and post-production. With the business expanding, RED+PLUS was one of the first agencies to pioneer working with fashion films in China.

Our service: creative support and art direction, art buying, casting, location scouting, set design, post production.

Central Studios is a one stop shop for creating vivid and impactful content for every market. Centered around our large studio complex in the heart of Shanghai, CS has been servicing local and global brands alike across all facets of photo and video production for over 10 years.

"We believe excellent client services with a clear understanding of what you want is the key to ensuring each project is a success.  

Meeting the challenges of 2020, CS has produced numerous remote shoots hosting clients and creatives remotely across a range of platforms for China based productions.  Our production resources extend across China and the region ensuring our high standards are not limited to Shanghai.

At Central Studios, we offer a fully bilingual production team, well-appointed studios and in house equipment rental; and a high end bespoke retouching team. Managing all services under one roof ensures we deliver the quality you expect.

Some of the brands we’ve worked with in 2020 include Farfetch, Uber-Eats, Converse, Lane Crawford, H&M, Tiffany & Co, Mikimoto, GAP, Ports International, Puma, King Koil, and Metlife. Drop us a line if you have any China questions or follow us on Instagram."

Bloc Productions is a print and video production company based in Shanghai and Beijing. Our multilingual team have produced hundreds of print, editorial and video campaigns across China and Asia for a wide range of commercial and editorial clients.

Recent projects have included MontBlanc with celebrity Bai Jin Ting shot by Jack Webb in Shanghai, SK-II shot remotely in HK with celebrity Leah Dou and photographer Ricky Lo and Nike campaigns for Shanghai Marathon and Air Jordan with Elaine Zhong. To see more of what we do check out our site.

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 production and communications house dedicated to the dynamic Asia market. With our partners, Amana Inc from Tokyo and Bernstein Andriulli from New York, we are able to provide complete visual and social content solutions with a wide range of services from photography, film, illustration and creative services to facilities and equipment rental, as well as post-production work.

With the experiences of working with a roster of multinational clients worldwide, we’ve been keeping sparking fresh exciting ideas for the advertising industry and client including some of the world’s largest brands such as Adidas, Coca-Cola, Nike, P&G,Chrysler, Pepsi, Bose, Apple, Beats and Unilever.

"Beijing Eye is a video and print production company with offices in Beijing and Shanghai. We represent and source photographers and directors in China. We also produce TVC campaigns, print campaigns and other branded content.

We provide Greater China production services for overseas clients, including via remote shooting. We have a team of some 35 professionals across two offices. Our TVC producers, print media producers and casting directors come from a wide range of industry backgrounds, making our team strong, unique and diverse."

Clients: Nike, Sephora, Mercedes-Benz, Chanel, Diesel, Huawei, Adidas, Dior, Coach, VW, Porsche, Louis Vuitton,Tod’s, XiaoMi, Samsung, Coca-Cola, Dove, Tmall, Sprite, Snickers, Costa Coffee and DiDi.

Gareth Brown is a British photographer who settled in HK a little over 20 years ago, establishing Blow Up Studios soon after.

Gareth’s irrepressible enthusiasm and passion for photography shines through every production he gets involved in. Equally adept at lifestyle, health & fitness, fashion, corporate and fine art dance photography, he produces exceptional, emotive eye-catching imagery.

He’s ably supported by a wonderful team at Blow Up Studios, who have the experience and capability to produce, execute and deliver, imagery of the highest order.

Gareth has worked with an impressive list of advertising and design agencies both locally and globally. Some of the brands he’s worked on in the past couple of years include: Pure Fitness & Yoga, Lululemon, Philips, Sothebys, Disney, Ocean Park, K11, Landmark, and Getty.

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 English and most Asian languages, and thus able to communicate clearly with everyone involved in both pre-production and post-production.

Shtrak! Boyz

…a pair of distinctive, bearded men, who differ not only in appearance and level of loudness but most importantly in their creative sensibility, connected through a mutual love for photography and light shaping.

Complementing each other's skills and methods, Miloš & Vlatko, are working, in Shanghai, China, as a creative, photography duo since early 2014. With two brains, four eyes, double the heart volume and twice as much of balls in comparison to an average photographer, they perform much swifter and meticulous in the pre- and post-production and more importantly, during the shoots.

With an accent on studio work, their body of work consists of a wide variety of styles covering commercial / advertising, food and beverage, beauty and fashion photography. Edgy in approach, refined in treatment and recognisable for their style, they produce exclusive and hyper-realistic commercial images that draw lots of attention.

Anne-Sophie Heist is a French-German photographer who has been based between Shanghai and Dubai for the past 15 years, working on a wide range of photography assignments for overseas and local clients. With a keen eye for colour and authenticity she focuses on capturing feelings that speak beyond the immediate visual impact of any photograph and create a connection between the viewer and the object. 

Her extensive knowledge and network working in China and the Middle East help her to think quickly and laterally across many different pools of experiences, languages and potential cultural barriers that may arise during advertising campaigns for a foreign audience.

Stefan Schmid lives and works in Hamburg and Shanghai. He got his first camera at the age of 12 and was immediately fascinated by this special way of capturing moments and memories. After studying Film and Media Studies at Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University he started working as a fashion and advertising photographer in 2002. 

His way of approaching people he works with gives his images this unique closeness and moments of spontaneity and authenticism. His passion for photography leads him to always work on the limit, doing the best possible to create images that exceed what is expected. He loves the creative process of a team working together.

Stefan has been working for national and international clients such as Mercedes Benz, Casio, Nike and magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Elle.

Stefan is represented by D'ELE Management and Production.

Based in Shanghai, Song Liu was obsessed with Andy Warhol and Complex Arts during childhood. Then, he went to college for Print Major and due to the movie “Blow Up”, he became interested in fashion photography in 2009.

Song is represented by Red+Plus.

Yuyang first picked up a camera at 15 documenting his teenage life and the pace of change in his home province of Sichuan. First self-taught, he won the Magnum Fellowship in 2014 and went on to study photography in NYC. His patience, sincerity and unique eye has brought attention to various themes around the world including daily life in North Korea, fisherman in Senegal, LGBT weddings in the sea of Japan, Uygur teen football and the massive urbanisation of China.

He has been awarded the Eugene Smith Grant in 2020, named by Time magazine as one of the Nine Chinese Photographers You Need to Follow and won emerging photographer of PDN 30 in 2017. His work has been published in Time magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal along with many more and exhibited in galleries in Paris, New York, London and China. 

His commercial work includes campaigns for the likes of Apple, Nike, Airbnb, Harbin Beer and has shot celebrities including Zhong Chu Xi, Li Wen Han, Li Meng, Zhao Rui, Zhou Yu Tong. 

Yuyang Liu is represented by Bloc Productions.

Eric Yip of EYXL Photo is a Sydney - Singapore based photographer creating images in the fitness, active-lifestyle and portraiture space. 

He creates images that are energetic and dynamic to fit with the typical brands that would engage his work. Using a blend of natural and strobe lighting, his images develop a personal aesthetic that ensures a unique look for his clients. 

Eric Yip has worked with clients including Adidas, VAPX, McDonald’s Bally, JWT, Jabra and Aftershokz amongst others. 

See more of his work on his site and on his socials. 

For over 10 years now, the visual art duo Yok and Sheryo have been living a nomadic lifestyle of travel and adventure. What started as a spur of the moment travel adventure to seek out one of the oldest porcelain villages has turned into a tradition of sorts, a new “pet project” every year which involves shipwrecking themselves into remote places of the world seeking out local artisans and cultures to learn from. For both of them, curiosity, adventure and journey is all part of their creative process.  

Constantly yearning for sun, surf, adventure and seeking inspiration from Asian mythology, animism, surfing and skateboarding, their multidisciplinary practice is a continuous conversation between their own physical forms and the locale in which they are working from - often responding to the various cultural, personal, and historical narratives within a particular site.

The result is a signature riotus and irreverent style, with “East meets West” sensibilities. Their paintings act as visual diaries, filled with inside jokes, bad spelling, local and invented lingos and interesting people and situations they get themselves into while being on the road.

They currently call Shanghai and New York home, and have exhibited and painted in various institutions and galleries; National Museum (Singapore), Art Science Museum (Singapore), Gare St.Sauveur (France),  Baandam Museum (Thailand), Moniker Art Fair (London), Coney Island Art Walls (USA), Wynwood Walls (USA) curated by Jeffrey Deitch, “Magic City” (Munich, Dresden and Sweden) curated by Carlo McCormick and has also appeared in various international publications.

Yok & Sheryo are represented by Amanacliq.