![]() Shya remains a sought-after talent despite (or perhaps because of) this good-natured refusal to compromise, which allows for his genius in depicting atmosphere and genuine emotion in his work. ![]() But it’s all about creating that situation and that mood the composition and the light.” “You’re always supposed to show off the clothes, but sometimes I don’t, and I make the brand really upset,” he says with a grin. He has a tendency to irk the people who hire him, however. Shya went on to work with Wong on In the Mood for Love and several other movies, and he’s also perpetually in-demand as a commercial photographer for high fashion shoots. Arranged in a collage format for Acting Out, they reveal a precious intimacy between the actors that feels raw and authentic. Having zero experience in the norms of set photography, Shya followed exactly none of the guidelines of the job (like shooting actual scenes from the movie), and spent his time instead seeking out honest off-camera moments between co-stars Tony Leung and the late, great Leslie Cheung – lying in a car, smoking, sipping water and staring at the sky. ![]() I like to keep moving, I like to keep changing.”Īrguably Hong Kong’s most celebrated photo artist, Shya began earning this rebellious reputation while working as a set photographer on Wong Kar-wai’s 1997 film Happy Together. “But I like it very much, because that’s my philosophy. "To be honest, I didn’t choose it,” Wing Shya says of his exhibit’s name, Acting Out, as we sit inside Shanghai Center of Photography a few days before its opening.
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