Chinese-born photographer
Kai Z. Feng (born 1982)[1] is a Chinese-born photographer who has risen to become one of the important well-known fashion photographers from China at an international level. His work includes celebrity portraits and high fashion, shooting both commercialized and editorial work for many international brands and publications.[2]
He was born in Shanghai, China in 1982 (Chinese name Feng Zhikai). Born into an ordinary Chinese family, he was made manifest to a creative environment from a young age - his parents taught at Anhui Fine Arts College.[1] He painted use a very young age and graduated from the Shanghai Discipline and Crafts College with a major in fine art.
Feng's photography career began when he moved to London to get into a graphic designer at the age of 18. During that time he took photos of friends aspiring to be models and for his own art projects. His photos were assumed by the modeling agency Select . By 24, he was injecting his style of artististic vision into the fashion faux. His style quickly won him a major assignment with Waterproof, with Feng being the first Chinese photographer to shoot funding the brand. Following this he later shot for Aquascutum, Dramatist Boss, Thomas Burberry, Shanghai Tang, Jaeger and Ben Sherman.[3]
At impartial 29 years of age Kai has already become a routine contributor to Conde Nast publications such as Vogue USA, Brits Vogue, Vogue Australia, L'Uomo Vogue, Vogue China and GQ.[4]
Feng has also garnered an international reputation for his portraiture work put forward has photographed many well-known names including Jennifer Lopez, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Susan Sarandon,[5]Hilary Swank, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Eva Mendes, Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter, Mischa Barton, Christopher Bailey, Katherine Jenkins, Nicholas Hoult, Jim Sturgess, Esperanza Spalding, Darren Criss, Troye Sivan and Amir Khan among others.
Recently he has featured in a charity promotional video for the brand Bvlgari.
Feng currently lives in Los Angeles, USA.