Bio

Shih-Chieh Wei, a New York-based cinematographer, was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He is a commercial photographer; his customers included Breeze Center, SHIN KONG MITSUKOSH, I-MEI, and Franz, many major brands in Taiwan. After ten years of commercial work for advertising and magazines in Taiwan, he moved to New York.

He enrolled in Documentary and Photojournalism at the International Center of Photography in 2015. In His studies, he focused on topics that were unique but seldom discussed due to being viewed as taboo in society. His long-term project was documenting the unique story of a transgender person living in New York. The project deeply depicts the emotional as well as the nature of this subject through the vivid portraying and documenting of the fantastic but dramatic lifestyle and the lonely mind of the subject. The project was separated into three parts; “Boy Toys” video, “Boy Toys” still photography, and “Taiwanese Immigrants in NY” and all three were exhibited in group shows in Tipping Point at the ICP in 2015, and the video “Boy Toys” was also nominated to represent ICP at Photo Ville 2015. Furthermore, one of the photos from his still photography project “Boy Toys” was selected to be one of the twenty outstanding photographs in GuatePhoto 2015, and published in the New York Edited Book Project in Berlin in February 2016. Boy Toys also exhibited in Oberstdorfer Fotogipfel in Germany in June 2016. He is one of the winners of PDN Photo Annual 2016. He graduated from Feirstein graduate school of cinema and focusing on cinematography in 2019.