Dragons’ Den Season 19
Associate Creative Director: Edgar Pineda
Art Director: Kevin Matheson
Assistant: Jocelyn Reynolds
Digitech: Al Quintero
Retouching: Emily White
Credits:
Client: Sephora Canada
Agent: United Assembly
Agency: Makers
Director: May Truong
DP: Vanesa Chow Milado
1st AC: Tom Mangin
2nd AC: Cecilia Lee
Gaffer: Andy Youn
Best Electric: Kahnh Tudo
Key Grip: Gianluca Basil
Best Grip: @shaneazam
Swing: Nikolai Kaigorodtcev
Sound: Eric Taylor
Set Dec and Photo Assistant: Jocelyn Reynolds
DIT: Al Quintero
Post Production: Dino Harambasic at DIVISN post-production
Thanks Grande Camera and Ontario Camera for the gear.
50 years after being immortalized in Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize winning photograph, Napalm Girl, Kim Phuc Phan Thi reflects on how that image changed her life.
Jillian Joy creates modern wedding dresses with traditional Filipino style.
Photo Editor: Tanner Curtis
Words by: Mekita Rivas
Hair and Makeup: Rhia Amio
Assist: Jocelyn Reynolds
Credits:
Hair and makeup: Alanna Chelmick
Assistant and retouching: Yujie Wang
Chanel Robbins photographed in Bradford, ON for The New York Times. Black equestirans want to be safe. But they can’t find helmets.
Credits:
Production - @makers__inc/ @theunitedassembly
Creative Team - @kimlaurakim / Stephen Coomber
Wardrobe Stylist - @jackie__mckeown
Hair/Makeup Stylist - @veronicachu
DIT - @aeasson123
Assistants - @joslynpanasiuk / @kyra_kornack_
Retouching - @hsretouch
Models - @celeste_x_ @aminderb
Written & Directed by @maytruong_photography and @_anupa
Producers: @socacola , @iamdarby
DP: @sanguinuss
Gaffer: Sam Holling
Grip: Felipe Lopez Gomez
Audio: Sara Labadie
Puppet Design/Puppeteer: Adam Proulx
Production Design: @eh.vie
Hair & Makeup: @veronicachu
Production Assistant: @dellarollinsphoto
CAST
May: Christine Vu @____vuvu
Hannia: Hannia Cheng @badasscrybb
Grace: Angela Sun @21sungelas
Annie: Ellie Posadas @ellieposadas
Guy #1: Alex Yap-Young @ayapyoung
Guy #2: Brian Luong
Guy #3: Brandon Antonio @brandon_antonio
Editor: Maureen Grant @maureengranteditor
Assistant Editor: Victoria Chu
VFX: Ryan Hays @_rvh_
Sound: Gabe Knox @gabeknox_music
Colour: Zach Cox @builtbylightcolour
Title graphic: Sarah MacKinnon @dronesister
Graphics: @studiowyse
“Divine” courtesy of @pantayomusic
A very big thank you to Henry Levy at DoMyLaundry.ca
Produced by @scenariomed1a
Credits:
Creative Director + Designer: Alexia Lim
Hair + Makeup: Rhia Amio
Talent: Yian Xiong at Sutherland Models
Assistant + Retoucher: Yujie Wang
Avison Young Impact Report 2023 showcasing the people at Avison Young making waves on climate action, diversity, equity, inclusion and community impact.
Dan started his career picking snow-peas at age 8. Now he's the CEO, with his sights set on reshaping the financial industry through KOHO. Hear him talk about what motivated him to launch this company and what money means to him.
Credits:
Director: May Truong
Producer: Julia Cooper
Post Production: Victory Social Club
Talking about money doesn't have to be taboo. What if we spoke more about the numbers that keep us up at night? What if we shared stories about the cash we spent well, and not just the moments we regretted?
Director: May Truong
Post Production: Victory Social Club
KEIYNAN LONSDALE featured on YOHOMO
Full story on Yohomo.ca
Styling + direction: Armand Digdoyo
Grooming: Kristjan Hayden
Studio: Victory Social Club
Credits:
Production - @makers__inc/ @theunitedassembly
Creative Team - @kimlaurakim / Stephen Coomber
Wardrobe Stylist - @jackie__mckeown
Hair/Makeup Stylist - @veronicachu
DIT - @aeasson123
Assistants - @joslynpanasiuk / @kyra_kornack_
Retouching - @hsretouch
Talent - @hii.miikey / @ayeshaalynn
CREDITS
Styling, Diego Armand. Hair, Kristjan Hayden. Makeup, Claudine Baltazar. Set Design, Christina Yan. Assistants, Sam Pierre, Julia Whitmann, Andrea Lee.
CREDITS
Art Direction, Talle Tian. Styling, Jessica Luffman. Hair, Vanessa Garland. Makeup, Arielle Park.
Line dancing is a big deal in the Asian community (which not many people know about).
With Frustrated, I wanted to show someone living a frustrated life whose dreams are just beyond reach. Our star, Shane, starts to line dance - a tried and true dance she’s been doing since childhood. She lets out her frustration through movement. As she dances in the bar, we see glimpses of her dressed all in white with projections on her. She’s dancing with passion and energy in a dream world. This is the true representation of who she really wants to be. She’s big and bold. As the song ends we go back to the reality of her life. Frustrated, mistreated. Heartbroken, defeated.
Song by Tanika Charles
Director: May Truong
DOP: Gabriela Osio Vanden
Stylist: Christal williams
Makeup and Hair: Veronica Chu
Dancer Shane Nicole
Projections: Evangeline Brooks
Editor Nicole Sisson
Special thanks Jocelyn Reynolds, Midnight Market, Victory Social Club and Built by Colour
In a world of constant connectivity, we are seeing an alarming trend among countries who are alienating migrants geographically, socially, and politically.
Our own experience with migration has allowed us to understand the duality that encompasses it. Refugees inhabit a space that exists somewhere between the past and the present; the foreign and the familiar; turbulence and stability. Our series of photographs highlights some of these existing juxtapositions, while capturing the varying lenses through which refugees and migrants are viewed.
Art direction: Nuhad Haffar-Orsini / @nustud.io
Styling: Nelly Akbari / @nellyakbari
HMUA: Christina Fiori / @christina_fiori
Models: Damaris @kneelbeforeyou1 and Gat @gatkong at B&M Models @bnmmodels
Production Assistant: Nadine Haffar / @nadine_haffar
CREDITS
Art Direction and Styling, Diego Armand. Hair and Makeup, Robert Weir. Clothing by Andrew Coimbra
Photo Collaboration with May Truong + Armand Digdoyo
Hair and Makeup: Kristjan Hayden
Fashion Direction: Armand Digdoyo
Photo Collaboration with May Truong + Armand Digdoyo
Hair and Makeup: Kristjan Hayden
Fashion Direction: Armand Digdoyo
Photo Collaboration with May Truong + Armand Digdoyo
Hair and Makeup: Kristjan Hayden
Fashion Direction: Armand Digdoyo
Avison Young Impact Report 2022 showcasing the people at Avison Young making waves on climate action, diversity, equity, inclusion and community impact.
Grace Wong, founder of Jewels & Aces, is an inspiration. She talks about her journey to the CAFA Awards and how the women in her family led her to where she is today.
Thank you to the entire Asian female team!
Client: Jewels & Aces
Director: May Truong [@maytruong_photography]
Producer: Andrea Wong [@andyfingertrap]
Make-up & Hair: Alanna Fennell [@makeupxalun]
Edit: Nicole Sison [@nottycuts
Assistant: Yujie Wang [@yu.jie.wang]
Nadia Litz is an actor in David Cronenberg’s new film, Crimes of the Future.
Commissioned by MaRS, Portraits of Innovation is a special exhibition that showcases Canada’s diverse tech sector. These women have dedicated their lives to meaningful innovation — advancing Canadian technology in areas such as climate action, gene therapy, heart research, and real estate for social good.
Image 1 - Laura Zizzo, Co-founder & CEO, Manifest Climate
Image 2 - Azadeh Golipour, CTO, AVROBI
Image 3 - Soror Sharifpoor, Director, Strategy & Translation at Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research
Image 4 - Shaily Srivastava, Co-founder & CEO, @AcreageWay
Hair and Makeup: Alanna Chelmick
Photo Assistant: Joslyn Panasiuk
Retouching: Emily White
Nana Yanful is the Legal Director of Black Legal Action Center.
Art Director: Nicola Hamilton
Hair and Makeup: Mark Jordy Gonzales
Media Girlfriends is an award-winning podcast production company led by journalists of colour. Founded by Garvia Bailey, Nana aba Duncan and Hannah Sung, they honour, respect and centre historically misrepresented voices through audio storytelling done with care.
I’ve learned so much working with them and when they asked for new promo photos I jumped at the chance to capture their beauty, brillance and joy.
Hair and Makeup: Alanna Chelmick
Photo Editor: Della Rollins
Hair and Makeup: Veronica Chu
Assistant: Yujie Wang
Hair and Makeup: Robert Weir
Wardrobe Stylist: Christal A. Williams
Wardrobe Assistant: Sun Sylva
Hat by Jacow Milliny
Clothing by L’Uomo Strano by Mic. Carter
Jewellery by Meesh.to
Stylist: Chad Burton
Grooming: Mark Jordy Gonzales
Model: Mathieu Simoneau
“As a response to Ai Weiwei: Unbroken, the New Ho Queen takeover of the Gardiner Museum aims to explore what it means to be Undivided; We want to explore the effects of the QTBIPOC diaspora coming together and how this cultivates opportunity for ‘safe’ spaces, artistic expression, and expanding one’s chosen family.
As an expression of this sentiment, May Truong and I wanted to capture community members at large in their rawest, unedited and honest physicality. We photographed 42 QTBIPOC folx, and merged their faces without editing, skewing or morphing. The final result of combining two faces into one emphasizes our physical diversity, but also our physical and proportional similarities. This is emblematic of our diversity in gender expression, and the spectrum of our sexualities, while humbly acknowledging our shared experiences as queer people of colour.”— John Thai
Fashion Direction: Armand Diego
Assistant: Charlotte Bagherpour
Hair and Makeup: Melanie Whitmore
Jewelry: Cuchara Jewelry
Our culture constantly feels the need to perfect the female body image rather than celebrate the realistic nature of its imperfect beauty. More often than not, this distorts her image and overshadows her true identity. But when a woman knows who she is and what she can bring to the table; there’s nothing more powerful than that.
CREDITS
Art Direction, Nuhad Haffar-Orsini. Styling, Jess Mori. Hair, Helen Kenny. Makeup, Robert Weir. Set Design, James Reiger and Nuhad Haffar-Orsini. Lighting Tech, Valeria Myronenko. Photo Assistant, Jocelyn Reynolds. Styling Assistant, Katie Demois. Makeup Assistant, Christina Fiori. Hair Assistant, Allison Griffin. Set Assistants, Lara Al-Goul and Nadine Haffar. Models, Truth Alexis, Taranee Herrera
#WineWednesday, a creative collaboration between @studiowyse and @maytruong_photography.
Art directed by @studiowyse. Assisted by @ashley.tomlinson.
An ongoing project created by Anshuman Iddamsetty to normalize the fat brown body with help from select creators of colour.
Director + Editor: May Truong
Music: Graham Bertie
Gabrielle Boucinha of @oldcéline - an Instagram dedicated to highlighting the Phoebe Philo tenure at Céline. With 134k followers and counting, @oldceline is a testament to the significance and impact of Philo's reign.
CREDITS
Styling, Armand Digdoyo
"The Outsiders", based on S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age novel, is a series of tableaus that prompt us to reflect on experiences of racialization, gender, youth, belonging and representation.
CREDITS
Art Director, Stephanie Cheng. Editing, Maureen Grant. Hair and makeup, Kristjan Hayden. Styling, Diego Armand. Actors, Zoe Olsson, Jerrise de Jaun, Kathleen Camaya, Pamela Garces, Khanh Van Vo, Frances Lim Fat, Nuds Swangsang.
A series of re-creations based on my own experiences and memories from adolescence. Memory, culture and the diaspora create an entirely new reality of layered experience, where the struggle to find one’s identity is constantly colliding with what is expected.
CREDITS
Actors, Jade Wong, Queenie Ha, Dat Tang. Assistant, Helen Yousif.
CREDITS
Art Direction, Nuhad Haffar-Orsini. Styling, Nelly Akbari. Hair and Makeup, Robert Weir. Photo Assistant, Valerie Soo. Model, Tayemi @ Ciotti.
New Ho Queen is collective that celebrates Asian Pride. It creates safe spaces and a platform for the Asian LGBTQ community to be seen and heard. It was an honour to create these compelling portraits that show the diversity and beauty of Asian Queers.
Maylee Todd is a creative powerhouse. She is a musician, installation artist, 3D Mapper, feminist and adventurer. She was photographed at The Great Hall in Toronto.
CREDITS
Art Director and Stylist, Diego Armand. Hair and Makeup, Kristjan Hayden.
CREDITS
Editorial Director, Andrew Sardone. Art Director, Ben MacDonald. Styling, Georgia Groom Hair, Sarah Amson. Makeup, Claudine Baltazar. Photo Editor, Rachel Wine
CREDITS
Art Direction, Caroline Nitsch. Styling, Rachel Guichon. Hair, Kat Marcus. Makeup, Celeste Morton. Florist, Lauren Wilson
CREDITS
Art Director and Stylist, Diego Armand. Grooming, Melanie Whitmore. Assistant, Michael Madjus.
