Shuran Huang
Shuran Huang 黃舒然 is a Cantonese photographer based in Washington, D.C. Through moments of intimacy, her work focuses on politics, immigration, human rights, diaspora experiences, and interactions in between. Besides English, she speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Spanish. Shuran earned her master’s degree in photography from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in international journalism. Shuran’s work has been published and featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Thomson Reuters, The Guardian, CBS, National Geographic, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Bloomberg News, San Francisco Chronicle, The Texas Tribune, Netflix, A+E Networks, etc. Shuran also serves as an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University, providing graduate students hands-on training on Adobe programs and teaching multimedia technologies for effective communication. Shuran is a recipient of the 2022 IWMFs Gwen Ifill Fellowship and was selected as part of the 2021 Women Photograph Mentorship Class. She received multiple awards, including American Photography 38, Photo District News’ Faces Portrait Photography Contest, Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Competition, etc. She was also the alumna of the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXV, 2019 New York Portfolio Review and the 2019 Dow Jones News Fund Digital Media Program.