Kevin Christopher Ou (born March 4, 1979) is a Singaporean-American photographer.

Biography

Ou was born in

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

, on March 4, 1979. He attended St. Joseph's Institution International High-School and graduated in 1991. Later, he attended

Catholic Junior College Catholic Junior College (CJC) is a junior college in Singapore, offering a two-year course for pre-university students leading to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examination. Founded in 1975, Catholic Junior College was the third juni ...

in 1997. In 1999, he enrolled in the

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program at

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. Ou left Singapore after being "turned away" from a photography class. He moved to

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in 2000 after getting a Mass Communications diploma from

. He studied photography and art at the Art Center College of Design in

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, and graduated in 2004. After graduation, Kevin worked as a photographer on national advertising campaigns for a number of automobile manufacturers. After the automobile industry's shift to CGI-based work, he pivoted to do work for celebrities, politicians, music artists, and actors, who included

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and

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Education

In 2011, Ou served as a judge for a photography contest held by CMYK magazine. In 2014, Ou gave a talk for

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in Singapore.

Career

After graduation, Ou began his career working on national

advertising campaigns An advertising campaign or marketing campaign is a series of advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme which make up an marketing strategy, integrated marketing marketing communications, communication (IMC). An IMC is a platform i ...

for automobile manufacturers. As the industry shifted towards CGI-based work, he transitioned to photographing celebrities,

politicians A politician is a person who participates in policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles or duties tha ...

musicians A musician is someone who Composer, composes, Conducting, conducts, or Performing arts#Performers, performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general Terminology, term used to designate a person who fol ...

, and actors.

References

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