Pietro Ansaldi has been freelancing since 2005 and has been based in Shanghai since 2013. An experienced photographer, he mainly shoots commercial product images but has also developed skills across interior, architecture and food photography.

Pietro's strong passion for photography helps him to deliver the highest quality images. He can provide a complete service, from initial concept through to final idea, satisfying all client requirements along the way.

He creates a comfortable working atmosphere on-set for both creative teams and clients alike. The daily goal for Pietro is to achieve stunning and unique images.

''Amanacliq is a full service creative visual solution company dedicated to the dynamic Asia advertising market. With our partners, Amana inc from Tokyo and Bernstein Andriulli from New York, we are able to provide multiple disciplined visual solutions across photography, film, illustration, CG, sculpture, digital art and so on, as well as equipment rental and postproduction work.

With the experience of working with most multinational clients and advertising agencies, we’ve been keeping sparking fresh exciting ideas for the advertising industry and clients including Apple, Adidas, Coca-Cola, Disneyland, Nike, P&G, Bose, Chrysler, Lincoln, Pepsi, Unilever, McDonald's and many more. Feel free to contact us for profile requests and more information.''

''Central Studios continues to partner with global brands to produce memorable content. Over the past 10 years, our focus has been on providing unparalleled client services, creative solutions, and giving each project the support it needs for success.  

With the recent Puma SS20 campaign, our production team brought together all the key pieces needed to make this campaign a success. Working with both leading celebrity photographer Yu Cong and our in-house product specialist Muran, the whole campaign captured this line of footwear with fun pops of colour and playful shadows. 

Completing the 360 asset delivery,  the CS retouching team finessed Yu Cong’s portraits of Liu Hao Ran 刘昊然, NaZha 娜扎, and Yangyang 杨洋 bringing these quirky campaign key visuals to life.   

CS is the one-stop-shop for image making in Shanghai with great studios, a full range of in-house services and a friendly, bilingual team eager to work with like-minded people. We are here willing and able to execute international requests for all levels of photography for your visual assets supply chain.''

Red+Plus is a Shanghai-based creative team consisting of globally awarded photographers and young talents, directors, stylists, illustrators, make-up artists, hairstylists and fashion consultants.

"We are a group of passionate people happy to share our knowledge and expertise with our clients to meet their requests and develop their ideas. Red+Plus is proud to be a point of reference for the production of photography and motion campaigns, as well as creative projects for both fashion and advertisement. We represent an international pool of artists, each one gifted with a unique artistic style."

Red+Plus, together with the talents represented, work to develop concepts and ideas and to make them happen. "We support our clients, from the creative and conceptual direction up to set coordination, with special attention to detail."

With 2,000m² of space in Shanghai, Red+Plus also owns three in-house NY-style studios complete with equipment rental services; top-notch photo studios for creative use, from still life to cars, fashion shows to special events.

Ehrin Macksey is a photographer and filmmaker working across east Asia since 2006. Starting his career as an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker, Ehrin applied his documentary visual approach and style to commercial and corporate clients looking to produce authentic and unique photos and films to represent their company and brands.

His visual storytelling is often commissioned by Fortune 500 companies looking to produce annual reports, corporate social responsibility reports and image libraries in both photography and video to help connect their audience to their unique stories. "We live for storytelling and we love making beautiful images that evoke emotion from an audience. The stories we tell convey the feelings and drives of our clients in a honest and thoughtful way. Storytelling is what gets us out of bed early in the morning to get the 'wow' shots that keep your audience engaged. It is the breath, blood and soul of our company and it is why after over a decade in Asia we keep succeeding for our clients. Put that energy and passion to work for your company's brand and let us tell your story."

Clients include Google, Apigee, Netflix, Siemens, IBM, Dufry, Booking.com, Expedia, Netcompany, Cloudflare, Intel, Brenntag, Citibank, Buhler, Gebo Cermex, Trumpf, BBC, CNN, Microsoft, Ford Motors, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Forbes Magazine, Scenic Tours, Singapore Airlines, Turkish Airlines,  World Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, VIB Bank, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNAIDS, Hear The World Foundation, Hilton Hotels, Hyatt Hotels, M•A•C Cosmetics, Redhat, Simitomo Corporation,  Travel & Leisure USA, Ogilvy & Mather, GREY Group, Masan Group and many more.

Welcome to Showcase China, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photo & film production companies, photo agents, photographers and studios working out of China. 

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Beijing (Photo / Film), Hong Kong (Photo / Film) and Shanghai (Photo / Film) directories.

Brands including Uniqlo, Huawei, Aperol Spritz, BMW, Converse Sakura, Burberry, Aston Martin, Lancôme, Puma, and Huggies among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Just at the time when China was opening up for productions, we had a talk with some China-based creatives about life during and after the lockdown for those who work in photo and film production. Listen to the talk with Edie Zhang and Jaslyn Loh from amanacliq, Rodney Evans from Central Studios, photographers Hiro K. and Pietro Ansaldi and creative director at OPPO, James Li. 

Our cover image was shot by Liu Song, represnted by Red+Plus. 

Goldie is a photographer and director currently based in Tokyo and working primarily throughout Asia. In Japan Goldie works closely with a bilingual producer to create and execute campaigns, and content creation across both stills and video. With a long background as an advertising photographer in both London and Sydney, he now calls Tokyo home, inspired by it’s amasing culture and the fresh inspiration.

Goldie has recently worked with brands such as Mastercard, BMW, Audi, Paypal, Redbull, Rakuten, The NBA, Guinness, Citroen and Fujitsu to create a variety of creative and engaging media.

With a long background in photography, his directing has gone from strength to strength as he has created documentaries, and short films that are winning multiple festival awards.

China-based and Singaporean-born Andy Wee has been shooting both Chinese and international brands, from Asia's Mazda and Toyota to Germany's Mercedes-Benz, Audi, VW and Skoda to USA' Jeep, Chevrolet and Ford to Chinese brands like BAIC Beiqi, SAIC HongQi, FAW Mazda, Geely and many upcoming electric cars like NIO and DongFeng's SF5.

The recent launch of the CX-4, Mazda's Asian variant of American CX-30, to both Chinese and Japanese clients has been a linguistics test for Andy's team. The shoot has gone from studio to city to mountain roads, all in a week's work.

Andy has worked with numerous agencies, and his team is able to speak both English and most Asian languages, and thus able to communicate clearly with everyone involved in both pre-production and post-production.

''Get ready for the rebound!''

As summer is approaching, Hong Kong is one of the earliest cities to recover from the current pandemic and it means we can now enjoy this summer with no boundaries! 

Many clients are already getting ahead to produce campaigns and visual content for a quick financial rebound in Asia! As Hong Kong city can provide plenty of locations such as, beaches, nature, urban architecture and modern interiors. Many productions have now shifted to this continent due to the lockdown.  

Frackeye Production provides photography and videography production services on all scales to international teams, creatives and brands. Our art department in Asia and location options are extensive.

Frackeye Studio’s visions and artwork ranges from high fashion to advertising, natural to luxurious lifestyle, complex compositing to subtle details. Our inspirations come from everyday challenges and the mix of east and west culture.

Visit their Facebook and Linkedin page to see more and get in contact.

"High energy. High impact. Welcome to FLATMIND Productions. 

FLATMIND is a full-service video production company with more than 15 years of experience in China and Europe.

We are passionate about telling your unique story with corporate marketing videos, product videos, commercial and social media campaign videos, fashion films and documentaries.

We take care of the whole video lifecycle, including creativity, production, post-production and CGI.

We have worked for clients such as Campari Group, Bvlgari, Prada, Bayer, Covestro, PepsiCo, Cisco, and Oppo.

FLATMIND transforms creative vision into reality. Together, we can increase your business and achieve your goals."