Kiliii Yuyan Photographer

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ABOUT

Kiliii Yuyan is a Nanai (Siberian Native) and Chinese-American photographer whose award-winning work chronicles Indigenous communities and conservation issues.

Kiliii’s mission is presenting long-form narratives of the relationship between humans and the natural world. Kiliii’s photography presents an alternative vision of humanity’s greatest wealth—community, culture and the land.

Wilderness expeditionary experience has been critical for Kiliii’s projects across the Arctic and other extreme environments. On assignment, he has fled collapsing sea ice, weathered botulism from fermented whale blood, and found kinship at the edges of the world.

Kiliii contributes features to National Geographic Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, CNN, the Guardian, Sierra, Outside. His photographs have exhibited in galleries worldwide, and have won awards from PDN, Communication Arts, and Px3. Kiliii also speaks publicly about indigenous and conservation issues, and has given talks at National Geographic and the George Eastman Museum. He is based out of Seattle.

Selected Press

Strange Fire. Interview. By Hamidah Glasgow.
Lenscratch. Searching for Home. By Aline Smithson
Communication Arts. Feature: Kiliii Yuyan. By Dzana Tsomondo.
The Photographic Journal. Interview. By Lou Noble.
Lens Culture. Unbroken Lineage: The Keeper of Knowledge. By Gina Williams.
World Photo Organization. Remarkable images from the wild edges of our world. By Matthew Oxley.

Speaking Events

Season of the Whale 2019, National Geographic Photography Seminar, Washington D.C.
On the Sea Ice, We Wear White 2018, Glazer's Camera, Seattle, WA
On the Sea Ice, We Wear White 2018, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Living Wild 2015, PIX 2015, McCall Hall, Seattle, WA

Awards & Honors

International Photography Awards, 2019, First Place, Press/Feature Story
PDN Photo Annual, Feature Story & Personal Work, 2019
PDN's 30 New and Emerging Photographers, 2019
PCNW 22nd Juried Exhibition, 2019, First Place
Speaker, National Geographic Photography Seminar, 2019
Best of ASMP, 2018, First Place, Series
Eddie Adams XXXI
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2018, Bronze, Feature Story
PDN World in Focus 2017, 1st Place, Photo Essay
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2017, Gold, Press
Critical Mass 2017, Top 50
PDN Photo Annual 2017, Personal Work
International Photography Awards 2017, Silver, Deeper Perspective
Communication Arts Annual 2017, Multimedia
Sienna International Photo Awards 2017, HM, Editorial
International Photographer of the Year 2016, Silver, Editorial
Sony World Photo Awards 2016, Shortlist, Still Life
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2015, HM, Press
International Photography Awards 2015, HM, Feature Story, Portrait
Communication Arts Annual 2015, Stock

Exhibitions

2019, People of the Whale, Center for Fine Art Photography, Solo, Fort Collins, CO
2019, PCNW 22nd Juried Exhibition, Group, Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA
2019, Stories from the Arctic Refuge, Photoville, New York, NY
2019, How We See Ourselves: Natives Photograph, Photoville, New York, NY
2018, On the Sea Ice, We Wear White, Solo, Glazer’s Camera, Seattle, WA
2018, In/Visible: Diversify Photo, Group, Photoville, New York, NY
2018, The State of the World, Group, Espace Beaurepaire Gallery, Paris, France
2018, A Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition, Group, Edition One Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2017, Anthropocene, Solo, Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council, Seattle, USA
2017, Ambient Landscapes, Feature Shoot / Black Eye Gallery, Group, Darlinghurst, Australia