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Shirley Chan is a Taiwanese-American, Brooklyn-based cinematographer and sometimes editor working in the documentary, branded, fine art, and narrative space.

Her clients include Saint Heron, Nike, Meta, Levi’s, Chevrolet, Arc’teryx, Neutrogena, Coca-Cola, WhatsApp, and institutions like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Art Gallery of New South Wales and more.

You can also find her work in Vox, New York Times Cooking, BBC, NBC, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Conde Nast, More Perfect Union, Remezcla, Slate, Huffpost, and Oregon Public Broadcasting. Her narrative (Friend of Sophia, Missile) and documentary (Breadwinners) films she’s lensed have screened at film festivals around the US. 

Find her featured in i-D talking about navigating this industry as a queer cinematographer.

She is member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Video Consortium, A-Doc, Array Crew, FreeTheWork, Sporas, Society of Camera Operators, and a  2023 AFI Cinematography Intensive for Women participant. 

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