Sanitary Beauty

• Prize
  Silver in Advertising/Beauty
• Photographer
  Yi-Chen Lee
• Photo Date
  February 2020
• Website
  https://www.leeyichen.com/

An ironic image concerning people's attitude of facing the crisis as an epidemic before the outbreak in Europe. Born in Taiwan, LEE Yi-Chen is graduated in journalism, and specialized in photo-journalism and documentary. After gaining some experience in news & media, sports events and political documentaries; LEE Yi-Chen moved to Paris to study photography and improve his visual communication skills. He is now trying to express his perspective for life by conceptual photography.

• Biography
  Born in Taiwan. Yi-Chen LEE started to study the 8th art in Paris in 2018 and kept documenting social movements during his studies while he developed conceptual photography. He conveys social commentaries through his conceptual images and regards his photography as evidence of the very real-life questions surrounding such issues as stereotyping and identity. As a self-taught photographer in his early career, he documented the 2009 Summer Deaflympics, 2010 & 2014 Municipal Mayoral Elections, 2016 Taiwan Presidential Election. Official photographer of New Taipei City Government since 2012.
• Awards
  2021 Fine Art Photography Awards, Fine Art Nominee 2021 Fine Art Photography Awards, Nude Nominee 2020 Tokyo International Foto Awards, Silver Winner 2020 International Photography Awards, HB 2019 International Photography Awards, HB 2018 IPPAWARDS, HB x 2