Bio

Shih-Chieh Wei, a New York-based cinematographer, was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He is a commercial photographer. 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 unique topics that were seldom discussed due to being viewed as taboo in society. His long-term project was documenting the unique story of a transgender living in New York. The project deeply depicts the emotional nature of this subject through the vivid portrayal and documentation 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” 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 was also exhibited in Oberstdorfer Fotogipfel in Germany in June 2016. He is one of the winners of PDN Photo Annual 2016. He graduated from the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema and focusing on cinematography in 2019.