Master of light Liu Zongyuan plays with light through a waterfall and a cave of ice in his latest photoshoot featuring actresses Yang Zi and Ma Sichun.
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Photoshoots, stills, and posters that caught our eyes this week. What caught yours?
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My favorite Liu Shishi cover of all times 
Look at how beautiful the light is on her 
Liu Shishi by Liu Zongyuan 
Known for his use of light to decorate his objects, Liu Zongyuan’s photographs often feel like they come from the impressionist school of painting. You might remember him from the famous Mulan-like photoshoot he did for Liu Yifei, but that photoshoot is not even up there among his best. He often brings an ethereal beauty to his subjects and their surroundings. Liu Yifei is probably Liu Zongyuan’s most common muse and the one who put him on the map, but he is also a frequent collaborator with actresses like Liu Shishi (who loves him so much she got him to do her wedding shoot) and Li Qin.
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Liu Zongyuan paints a frame that is both so Chinese but also so Monet.
Fan Bingbing and photographer Liu Zongyuan paint a delicate summer scene in this latest photoshoot. Liu Zongyuan really has a knack for capturing a traditional Chinese aesthetic while using almost solely Western tools, and this is Fan Bingbing at her best.
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Posters, stills, and photoshoots that caught out eyes this week. What caught yours?
Jing Tian by Liu Zongyuan 
Jing Tian
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Magazine spreads, posters and stills that recently caught our eyes.
Liu Yifei’s Mulan promos have begun!
Liu Yifei’s Mulan promotions have begun! Here’s the first of undoubtedly many photoshoots. With a theme of duality that also mirrors the ballad of Hua Mulan, this photoshoot is by Liu Zongyuan of the Mulan-like photoshoot. Supposedly each picture is a line of the poem, so below the cut is my attempt at matching sections of the ballad with the pictures.
Jing Tian in modern wuxia photoshoot
Actress Jing Tian did a pretty modern wuxia-themed photoshoot recently. It reminds me a lot of the modern wuxia photoshoot for Liu YIfei also by photographer Liu Zongyuan, except the wuxia elements is less obvious due to the lack of visible weapons. Continue reading
Li Qin in Mauritius
If this photo was a movie poster, I’d go see it.
Li Qin is sometimes a warrior treading water to return home, and sometimes a fairy dancing atop a cliff in this Mauritius travel photoshoot by Liu Zongyuan.
The actress just finished up filming The Perfect Blue and has four upcoming dramas – The Wolf with Darren Wang, Fights Breaking Sphere opposite Wu Lei, Tears in Heaven with Shawn Dou, and Thankful for the Remaining Year with Zhang Ruoyun.
