The Life and Work of Doctor-Turned Photographer Zun Lee

Zun Lee is a physician, self-taught photographer and visual storyteller based in Toronto. He originally picked up a camera to relieve work-related stress and quickly developed an exacting eye for documentary photography and street portraiture. His intimate projects “Father Figure” and “Fade Resistance” challenge media stereotypes of African-American families and have garnered the attention of The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Magnum Foundation, among others. See more of Zun’s work at http://zunlee.com, built using http://format.com. For InFrame Series updates and announcements follow: http://format.com/inframe Facebook facebook.com/useformat Twitter twitter.com/useformat Credits: Director and Photography: Bas Berkhout Production: Like Knows Like Brand and Motion Design: Andrew Vucko / Roger Dario Creative Director: Lukas Dryja Executive Producer: Dominik Dryja Audiomix: Peter Stoel Archive photography: Henning Christoph

6 Photographer's Shoot The Same Guy To Show The Power Of Perspective

This eye-opening experiment by Canon Australia shows what can happen when photographers approach a photo subject with an agenda. Six photographers were told six different stories about the man they were supposed to photograph, and these stories come across in their resulting shots.

The six different backgrounds given for the model, Michael – millionaire, ex-convict, psychic, alcoholic, lifesaver and fisherman – all led his photographers to produce radically different results. They even shot their photos in the same studio with the same props!

“A photograph is shaped more by the person behind the camera than what is in front of it,” Canon Australia wrote in their video. Along with this valuable lesson, never forget how much creative license you have when photographing a subject, no matter how simple it might be!