who's that lady?

This week we had to shoot a portrait of a classmate in two lighting situations: just one light and maybe a reflector and then in a multiple strobe head fiasco. I shot Chen, who is an exchange student from Beijing studying architecture at Mizzou.



Chen Yang doesn't want to be a photographer, but rather, an architect. "I'm taking [advanced techniques] because there's a connection between all types of art," she said. "Like, when I design a building, maybe a church, I think about light. There's a special kind of beauty in that."

one light source:


In order to study architecture at the University of Missouri, Chen Yang moved away from her family in their native Beijing to a small midwestern college town. Never does this duality in her life represent itself more, Yang says, than in opportunities to shop. "There's only one mall here! At home, we have so many."

What do you think?
-p.