Page 124 - Aussie Magazine - 2024 Issue 3
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Interview
Jian
Lin
Dear Jian, thank you for taking but am currently more of a competitions and shows, but
the time to provide us with an bench athlete. Photography the days can become very
interview and answering our has always been a passion of long (… and boring) without
questions. mine, ever since I got my first anything to do. I decided
camera phone. My spare time to bring my camera and try
Please tell us about yourself is largely spent behind the photographing dogs while
and your Aussies. camera these days, doing both waiting for my fiancée's line-
My name is Jian Lin. I am photography and videography up. This was sometime during
Chinese by birth, but moved at agility competitions and 2019, but I keep bringing my
to Finland when I was young. dog shows. My fiancée camera to this very day. The
I still live in Finland, but now competes with our dogs while results that you see come from
with my beautiful family I photograph. no formal training, but rather
consisting of my fiancée, our a lot of questions, feedback,
two-year-old son and our two How did you first become reading and watching other
Aussies, Kenda and Diego. a dog photographer? Did photographers online.
Kenda is our blue merle bitch, you have formal training?
almost six years old. She is How long have you been a Who or what got you
definitely the kindest, most photographer? started photographing dogs,
beautiful and smartest dog It was actually a happy especially Aussies?
we’ve had. Diego is our two- accident. I started taking I love high-quality photos,
year-old black tri and Kendas' photos of people, sports, but at the time we didn’t have
son, but he still has a way to landscapes, and street many photos of our own dogs.
go before becoming like his photography, before dogs. I decided I wanted to change
mother. I used to play soccer We travel quite a bit to attend that, so they became my
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