About
Shanghai / Boston, MA
Chen Junhao Steven
Steven Chen (Chen Junhao) is an independent photographer, director of photography and filmmaker. He works between Shanghai and Boston, where he studies Media Arts Production (Film) at Emerson College.
His photographs attend to people, space and social relations in everyday life, and to the ways constructed landscapes, architectural order and natural environments shape how we see. The work moves between documentary and new-documentary approaches, street photography, photojournalism, new topographics, landscape and architecture.
His long-form projects include The Fluid Order, photographed along the Ganges in Bangladesh between 2024 and 2025, and People Live Here, which observes different ways of living across Morocco, Bangladesh, Nepal, the United States, China and Sri Lanka between 2023 and 2026. His photojournalism includes the stories American Dream, Healing Ways, Underneath the Stars and Stripes and Farewell Government.
In film he works as director of photography, gaffer, first assistant camera and colorist. Credits include Eyes (2026), Pink Balloons (2026) and Ballet Lesson (2026) as director of photography and colorist, and Full-Time Daughter (2024), which he wrote and directed. He also makes installation and experimental media work, including DSC4227.ARW, Sources of Pollution and Ten Thousand Lights.
He works in both Chinese and English.
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