Walter Chin

Walter Chin was born in Jamaica to a Chinese family,{{cite news|title='DJ Walter'|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HCwEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22walter+chin%22&pg=PA26|access-date=9 January 2014|newspaper=Vibe|date=April 1998}} and grew up there and in Canada,{{cite news|last=Balle|first=Vachell|title=Neiman Marcus Unveils Art of Fashion Campaign with Photographer Walter Chin|url=http://www.beautyworldnews.com/articles/2937/20130206/neiman-marcus-unveils-art-fashion-campaign-photographer.htm|access-date=9 January 2014|newspaper=Beauty World News|date=6 February 2013}} where he served an apprenticeship in Toronto, Ontario.{{cite news|title=Photography's Top 100: 83: Walter Chin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NqXFtc1-5xsC&pg=PA95|access-date=9 January 2014|newspaper=American Photo|date=Jan–Feb 1994}}

After graduating with a master's degree in photography, Chin moved to Paris, where as a professional fashion photographer, he worked mainly for French Elle, before relocating to New York in 1990. His work has been published in many magazines, including Allure, Mademoiselle, several Vogues, Glamour, GQ, Interview, and Vanity Fair.{{cite news|last=Nodecker|first=Natalie|title=Spotlight: Walter Chin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxAW7ngnbxwC&pg=PA65|access-date=9 January 2014|newspaper=American Photo|date=May–June 2001}} He has also photographed advertising campaigns for designers such as Chanel, Valentino, Tommy Hilfiger, Missoni and Lancôme. In 2013 he was selected by Neiman Marcus to photograph their annual Art of Fashion Campaign that year.

In 1994 Chin was listed as one of the most important people in current photography by a panel of curators, dealers, editors and industry insiders for American Photo magazine.{{cite news|title=Photography's Top 100|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NqXFtc1-5xsC&pg=PA61|access-date=9 January 2014|newspaper=American Photo|date=Jan–Feb 1994}} His inclusion on the list cited his modernism, use of colour and graphic form, and tight image cropping and the way in which his sitters appeared to constantly be in motion, drawing parallels with David Bailey and Martin Munkácsi. In 2001, the year Work in Progress, the first collection of his photographic work was published, he was still considered influential, but difficult to classify. He published a second book of photographs, After Shoot, in 2006.

One of his best known images, of a nude Gisele Bündchen on horseback, was published in Vanity Fair in 1999, and featured in a 2008 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London dedicated to Vanity Fair portraits.{{cite news|last=Menkes|first=Suzy|title=Vanity Fair's iconic images, from soulful to glossy| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/style/10iht-fvanity.1.10866294.html?_r=0|access-date=9 January 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=10 March 2008}} In 2010, the Bündchen image was still cited as one for which Chin was "especially well known."{{cite news|last=Borthwick|first=Shirin|title=Opening: Walter Chin: 25 Nudes|url=http://oakazine.com/2010/09/opening-walter-chin-25-nudes/|access-date=9 January 2014|newspaper=Oakazine|date=23 September 2010}}

• {{cite book|title=Work in Progress|year=2001|publisher=Edition Stemmle|location=Zürich u.a.|isbn=3908163277}}
• {{cite book|title=After Shoot|year=2006|publisher=Schirmer Mosel|location=München|isbn=3829602480|edition=1. Aufl.}}

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• [http://www.walterchin.net/ Walter Chin Portfolio Gallery]. Requires JavaScript and Flash {{dead link|date=March 2019}}
• [http://models.com/people/walter-chin Walter Chin] at Models.com

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