About Cindy.
AWARDS
Global SinoPhoto Awards, 2021, Highly Commended
OD Photo Prize 2021, Shortlisted
Images d’ici et d’ailleurs International Photo Festival
Lauréats 2021 (Jury’s choice)
Pink Lady Food Photographer Award 2020,
Shortlisted for Student Photographer of the Year
PRESS
CNN: In pictures: Photography contest turns lens on life in China
The Guardian: Global SinoPhoto awards – Chinese culture in pictures
The Sunday Times UK: In pictures: Global SinoPhoto Awards 2021 winners
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Global SinoPhoto Awards Exhibition
Museum of East Asian Art
Bath, UK
2022
Images d'ici et d'ailleurs International Photo Festival
Carpentras, France
2021
Our Own Eyes are Clear
London, UK
2020
*also served as exhibit organizer
Shutterhub, Yearbook 2020
London, UK
2020
Selected by jury for print publication,
YEARBOOK 100
Online Degree Show by PhotoGrad
London, UK
2020
Selected by Jury as Highly Commended
Group Show, Spéos Gallery
Paris, France
2018
The Family of No Man by Cosmos Arles Books
Rencontres d’Arles
Arles, France
2018
Cindy Lin is a Taiwanese American still life photographer.
She has received a MA degree with Distinction from University of Westminster (London, UK) in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, and a RNCP (the French equivalent of a MA degree) from Speos Photographic Institute (Paris, France). She has an undergraduate degree from University of California at Berkeley.
Cindy's personal work deals with social issues inspired by identity shifts, immigration and contemporary gender issues. They are often expressed through still life and food in studio settings. She works in both digital and analog, primarily in medium and large formats. Recently, her practices shifted towards creating work with archive images, sewing and collage to create 3D photographic objects.
Prior to becoming a photographer, Cindy worked as a home stager in San Francisco Bay Area for 12+ years. She still teaches styling and home staging business practices internationally through her company Staged4more and previously at UAL Chelsea. As a home stager and home staging educator, Cindy has been published in Wall Street Journal, CBS News, San Francisco Chronicle, Apartment Therapy and many notable press outlets. Her previous styling and home staging work can be viewed here: home staging, event design and visual.
Cindy splits her time between San Francisco, Taipei and Europe throughout the year.