Xuan Zhao is a photographer in the heart of New York City who also goes by Sean. Born in Baoding China, he came over to the states at an early age and grew up in a small town in the Adirondacks upstate New York. Sean went to the School of Visual Arts where he studied Photography & Video in Undergraduate, and later earned his Graduate degree in Photo, Video and Related Media.

    Sean is interested and versed in many different types of photography. His work aims to portray a multitude of subjects from street photography and lifestyle to theoretical photoshopped scapes, abstractions of rolls of black body figures against a pure white background and even a comprises multiple images shot in a single site, which he either layers into a composite still or sequences as a short animation..

    Traveling to new places is an interest of his and he believes it could play a part in the growth in his work. Currently Sean is working on investigating and disrupting the very nature of photography as a time-based medium.