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ABOUT ME
TIANRAN(MIKE) SHAO
PHOTOGRAPHER
BASED IN LONDON & GUANGZHOU
Independent photographer working across digital photography, analogue processes, and 3D modelling. His practice explores the subtle and often fragile relationship between individuals and the urban environment, examining how cities shape emotional states, memory, and personal identity. Through projects that merge documentary approaches with introspective and emotionally driven narratives, his work invites viewers to reconsider their own relationship with the city, encouraging a slower and more attentive reading of everyday urban moments where lived reality and inner experience subtly overlap.
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
09/2021 – 06/2024: LCC, University of the Arts London, London, UK
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Programme: BA(Hons) Photography
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SELECTED EXPERIENCE
08/2023 – 09/2023: Inner Profundity, Guangzhou, China
intern Lensman and curatorial assistant
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assisting arrangement of The Special Exhibition of the Smurfs’ 65th Anniversary – From Paper to Metaverse;
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shooting the video to record the exhibition arrangement process;
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making a promotion video for the exhibition.
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21/07/2021 – 21/08/2021: Beijing “Bazaar Art” Magazine Co Ltd, Beijing, China
intern Sales in Advertising Department
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cooperating with star artists at home and abroad;
launching the magazine “Bazaar Art”
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04/2020 –05/2020: Comicfans Culture, Guangzhou, China
Intern of New Media Department
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assisting in publishing comic books;
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editing and making videos for CICF Comic Exhibition;
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assisting in the management and innovation of new media industry