Tim Gao is a Shanghai based fashion & commercial advertising photographer. He is specialized in fashion, editorial, lifestyle, still life, advertising, campaign, product, E-commerce and food photo shooting.

With over 9 years of professional experience doing full-time photography, he can always deliver high quality works for both local and global clients.

Global clients including Estee Lauder (New York), Forbes (USA), Marni (Italy), Booking.com (Netherlands), LION Corporation (Japan), TÜV SÜD (Germany), Zadig & Voltaire (France), among others. 

His works have been published on VOGUE Italia, ELLE (CHINA), Harper’s BAZAAR (CHINA), BoF, SO-EN, Schon Magazine (UK), Sicky Magazine (Spain), Fucking Young! Magazine (Spain), MOD Magazine (USA), LEWIS Magazine (UK) and Vanity Teen (UK), to name a few. 

His goal is to create fashionable and yet artistic images for high end clients and brands. The style of his still life photography is contemporary and unique. Product photography is more than selling a product, Tim has the ability to disseminate a brand’s essence with marketable identity. His work has a signature style of creativity and originality. He works efficiently with talents like setting stylist and props artist to produce every creative commission.

Tim is also partnered closely with creative agency and production company to produce large projects with a full team expertised in creative direction, art direction, lighting gears and post production. Tim and his team can also provide location scouting service which makes either studio or outdoor / urban / street shooting flexible.

He can also travel to Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and other cities of China / Asia or globally to satisfy your demand.