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Shirley Chan is a Taiwanese-American cinematographer in Brooklyn, NY. Her journalistic background and love of experimenting with movement, color, and texture informs her approach towards editorial, branded, documentary, narrative, and performance art films.

She is a member of the ICG Local 600 as a Director of Photography.

Clients include: Saint Heron, Chevrolet, Nike, Meta, Levi’s, Arc’teryx, Cole Haan, Neutrogena, WhatsApp, Depop, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales.

You can also find her work in Vox, GQ, Vanity Fair, Architecture Digest, New York Times Cooking, Eater, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, BBC, NBC, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Condé Nast Traveler, More Perfect Union, Remezcla, Slate, Huffpost, and Oregon Public Broadcasting. Her narrative and documentary 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 the ICFC, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Video Consortium, A-Doc, Array Crew, FreeTheWork, Society of Camera Operators, and a  2023 AFI Cinematography Intensive for Women participant. 

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