About the speaker
Russel Wong is one of the most profiled photographers in Singapore and Asia with 17 TIME covers to date. It was through his love for Track and Field since the age of 12 that he enrolled at the University Of Oregon where he started his photography career. Russel later branched out as a fashion photographer in Los Angeles and has gone on to shoot for publications like TIME, Italian VOGUE, ELLE, New York Times and now enjoys the acclaim of being the first Singaporean to break into the notoriously difficult Hollywood movie industry. He is also one of an elite group of photographers assigned to photograph covers for Time magazine, 17 to date. He has also worked with Oscar winning directors like Ang Lee, and Zhang Yimou and have created images for their posters and publicity on movies like the Oscar winning “ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon “, “ Hero “ and “ House Of Flying Daggers “ and Golden Lion winner in Venice “ Lust Caution “. Popularly noted for his photographs of celebrities like Richard Gere, Jackie Chan, U2, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Jet Li. His limited edition prints have also been sold at the prestigious Christie’s auction house. In 2021, his works featuring Kyoto’s geishas called ‘Russel Wong In Kyoto ‘ was exhibited at the Asian Civilisations Museum In Singapore. Russel also had a cameo in the box office hit ‘ Crazy Rich Asians ‘ and played himself.
