PhotographyAwarded
Five Photographs
2009 – 2013
I took them in the years I was still finding my way. Later, they were recognised at PX3 in Paris and at the IPA.
It was in 2013, too, that I walked into real estate.
Ordered by award level within each competition: PX3’s Silver and Bronze first, then the IPA’s Honorable Mentions.
On the winners’ lists my name is written three ways: Beng Wai Lee, Kevin Lee and Lee Beng Wai. All of them are me.
Move over a photograph to look closely with the loupe; click to see the whole frame.
Happiest Moment
Beneath the veil, she is smiling.
2011.09.10 09:45NIKON D70085mm f/1.41/400 secISO 500
PX3 2012 · Portraiture · Wedding · Non-Professional · Silver
Listed as: Beng Wai Lee · Certificate wording: Second Prize · Portraiture - Non-Professional
At the time, I was in Taiwan on the overseas Chinese programme.
The same morning, I also took these two.
2011.09.10 09:46NIKON D70085mm f/1.41/500 secISO 500
2011.09.10 09:46NIKON D70085mm f/1.41/500 secISO 400
Hypothetical
A round mirror. In it, a face in stage make-up.
2009.10.25 20:56NIKON D80135mm f/21/80 secISO 800
PX3 2013 · Press · People/Personality · Bronze
Listed as: Kevin Lee · Certificate wording: Third Prize · Press - Professional
In those years, I worked in my father’s glass and picture-frame shop.
Pray of an ascetic
On a pebble beach, an ascetic in a red robe faces the sea.
2012.07.09Date of photograph as registered with the IPA
IPA 2013 · Honorable Mention · Editorial : Personality
IPA 2013 · Honorable Mention · People : Culture
Listed as: Lee Beng Wai
IPA official record ↗ See the certificate 1See the certificate 2
It was the summer holidays. I spent every holiday taking photographs.
Raining Love
Night, heavy rain, and two people under a white umbrella.
2013.04.24Date of photograph as registered with the IPA
IPA 2013 · Honorable Mention · People : Wedding
Listed as: Lee Beng Wai
I had just come back from Taiwan and was working as a freelance photographer, on a very unsteady income.
Grace of heart
A white veil, a profile, a hand lightly touching a chin.
2013.05.25Date of photograph as registered with the IPA
IPA 2013 · Honorable Mention · People : Wedding
Listed as: Lee Beng Wai
A month later, my brother took me into selling resale homes.
That December, I went into real estate full-time. I never stopped taking photographs.