Samantha Kong Photography 4.16

A contemporary wedding and portrait photographer.

Samantha started her career in photography since 2008, and she had been shooting over 600 wedding and engagement sessions. Capturing the moment of instant beauty, her photo style perfectly reflects a combination of elegance and nature. In the early stage of her career, Samantha was mainly focusing on Hong Kong and Macau market, later on she started extending her working scope to overseas’ wedding.

From the perspective of a female photographer, Samantha believes that photo is more than recording memories, but also expressing a lively and sentimental story. She believes that there is no universal photo shooting style, she has been paying lots of effort to communicate with clients, looking into their personalities in order to take a unique set of photographs for each precious client. Samantha learnt her craft from a renowned photographer, starting from being an assistant and established her own prestige brand, Samantha Kong Photography, in 2009. She then flew over United States and Australia to enhance her photographic skills and vision through attending different workshops and seminars, which significantly reflected what she always believe: New ideas are generated from continuous learning.

From 2012 onwards, Samantha's working scope started to spread all over the world such as America, England, Italy, Russia, China, Australia, France, Finland, Japan, Thailand, Hungary, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia and Taiwan etc. Apart from Asian, her professional working attitude and shooting techniques are well-recognized by clients with different nationalities, including but not limited to Italian, German, Japanese and Malaysian etc.

2012-2013, Samantha was having the honour of being interviewed by RTHK, about her sophisticated photo shooting experiences. She was also interviewed by fashion magazines such as [Marie Claire], [DIGI] from Hong Kong and [Today’s bride] from China. She has also held a photography exchange conference and sharing session with professional photographers in Beijing.

In 2013, Samantha first entered an international photography competition organized by the well-known SWPP London. She won the gold award in "Post and Pre wedding" category and a silver award in the individual category of the competition, which was a significant achievement in her photography career.

In 2014, Samantha became one of the recognized educators in TTL APA, which allowed her to work and share photo shooting techniques at this platform, and to exchange ideas and knowledge with international photographers.

In 2015, Samantha is honored to received the Best 50 Wedding Photos by Signature Weddings.

Samantha has conducted workshops and seminars in multiple cities among Asia pacific region such as Manila (Philippines), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and various cities (China).

In 2016, Samantha has been featured in one of the iconic photograph magazine in Hong Kong [Photo Magazine, HK] to share her view of photography.

人像及婚禮攝影師。

2008年開始從事攝影工作，至今拍攝逾600場婚禮和婚紗影片，攝影風格以自然、優雅，捕捉瞬間美麗為主調。 攝影生涯之初，主要以拍攝香港及澳門的婚禮為主，其後的工作範疇已拓展至海外婚紗攝影。

Samantha 擅於從女性角度出發，藉攝影說故事，細味情感。 拍攝時著重與客人的交流溝通，以了解每位客人的想法和性格，拍出一套專屬於他們的照片。 由最初的自學攝影，當攝影助理，至2009年成立 [Samantha Kong Photography]，Samantha一直致力求變，不斷創新 ，並以「不重複自己」為座右銘。

2012年起，其足跡開始遍及世界各地。 她曾於美國、英國、意大利、俄罗斯、中國、澳大利亞、法國、芬蘭、日本、泰國、匈牙利、馬來西亞、柬埔寨、印尼及台灣等地，參與拍攝工作，並吸收不同地區的攝影文化及技巧。 Samantha 的拍攝態度和能力，深得不同國籍背景的顧客認同，她的客戶群中，除了華人，亦有來自意大利、德國、日本、馬來西亞等。

2012-13年，Samantha 獲香港電台訪問，分享其工作態度及見聞。 其他雜誌專訪包括香港時尚雜誌 [瑪麗嘉兒]、電子產品雜誌 [DIGI數碼雙周] 及中國的 [今日新娘] 等。 另外，她亦曾於北京舉辦的攝影分享會中，與一眾高水平的同業交流，切磋攝影技術。

2013年，Samantha 於英國業界享負盛名的人像及婚禮攝影師協會SWPP舉辦的國際攝影比賽中，獲頒 "Post & Pre-wedding" 組別的年度金獎及個人組別銀獎。 這是她首次參與的國際攝影比賽，獲獎乃對其攝影生涯的高度肯定。

2014年，成為亞州攝影聯盟TTL 的認可導師 (TTL APA Educators) ，定期與國際知名攝影工作者，在此專業平台交流及推廣攝影的新資訊和教授攝影技術。

2015年，榮獲SIGNATURE WEDDINGS 的五十最佳婚禮照片。

2015年，Samantha 於中國多個城市，馬來西亞及菲律賓舉辦個人的教學工作坊及攝影分享講座，從而跟各地的攝影師分享交流她的攝影思路和技巧。

2016年，Samantha 獲香港 [攝影雜誌] 訪問及登上該雜誌月刊封面人物，分享其工作態度及攝影思路。