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Winston Zhou Photography

baltimore based food and still-life photographer.

16/09/2025

going back to my roots as a jewelry photographer with florals from and hardware
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09/09/2025

like yeah girl i love my job and yeah i love taking photos but it's really that much more special when you know that your work is directly supporting a cause that is near and dear. certified chuffed to have been able to create some beautiful images with in support of womens' reproductive health support and abortion access.
actually lmfao in middle school i had to sit in the library during health class when we were learning about basic anatomy. to this day i have no idea why i couldnt be there. "when are you getting a girlfriend?" well you see, i never learned how any of that works so how could i possibly interact with a women! preposterous! scandalous, even! to this day i've never seen a woman exist in this world. if only i had sat in on that health class
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03/09/2025

Not gonna lie I was shocked at how difficult it was to use a spray bottle for bottle styling.

Test shooting with
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28/08/2025

a few hours spent with for

it's really so hard to believe that as of this friday, i'll have been volunteering with CreativeMornings Baltimore for 8 YEARS ????!??!?? i've never been more grateful for a community!!! waking up for 7am call time has never felt so good (or bad).
see y'all this friday at .

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19/08/2025

the eternal baltimore beloved

31/07/2025

recent work with !!! a bit embarrassing for me, but this was one of the spots in baltimore that would absolutely fall under "essential places to visit" and yet i did not make it out until now OOPS. i've been hearing the best things about everything and everyone there for years and i'm so thankful to report that every single good thing you've heard is true, and even better than described. this shoot was such a dream. thank you so much for letting me show up at the crack of dawn and take over the dining room for a day!!

the way that i PACKED that production schedule as full as i possibly could so that we could do as much as humanly possible.....never again lmfao. the weather was so hot that by the time i had unloaded my kit off my car, my shirt was already soaked through. by the grace of lady gaga everything was dried off by the time lights were set up but the dry shirt was not destined to remain because in the 15 minutes it took for me to load gear back onto the car at the end of the day, i had once again made an unwilling visit to the swamp gooch factory. learned a few crucial things that day:
1. pack "non essential" gear into your car the night before if you can.
2. extra hands for load in/tear down should Not be underestimated.
3. wrap beers are going into my production schedules from now on.

A7iii, 24-70mm f/2.8 GM v1
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backdrop: Bone by
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23/07/2025

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recent studio test shoot with some pringles! i had realized that while i'm paying for my studio every month....it had fully been at least 3-4 months since i've gone in to do a test shoot. unacceptable, tbh.

these were just a fun and easy way to ease myself back into the process. i really have to give .rooden.art.weaving all of the credit. they made arranging these chips look so easy, while i was sweaty and hunched over the table for like, 3 hours trying to get this going.

A7iii, 24-70mm f/2.8 GM v1
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backdrop: Bone by
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19/06/2025

there's something so therapeutic about about working with flowers in the studio. alone in a dark room, just you, some shears, a bunch of strobes, broken AC, half drunk iced coffee, two water bottles, too many cables, leaves on the floor, dreams evaporating faster by the minute, so many clamps and clips, an opened but untouched bag of cheetos, the remnants of a slice of pizza, hairline receding, bag of coffee beans, maybe even a little bit of blood? you'll get that with some good lysol and elbow grease, don't worry about it. there's nothin better!

it's even better when the flowers from your friend at !!
(mark your calendars for Saturday, AUGUST 23 for their glorious return after a short summer break for some delicious fall flowers! i for one, am extremely excited for dahlia season again.)

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30/05/2025

some new work with Jaspers, shot with .

there's some really fun stuff i'm fermenting over here. can't wait to share ! also i've been cooking on an ANCIENT 2020 version of Capture One and literally upgraded last night to the most recent version. mama. it's nice. it was already nice, but this is NICE. ALSO i've been making a lot of smoothies for myself ever since I purchased an immersion blender. my skin isn't clear but it does feel cute.

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22/05/2025

several moons ago, the team hit me up to see if they could get some new team portraits !! these were inspired by some portraits i took at , which were inspired by this portrait of Taika Waititi taken by !!!!

the assignment was fun, colorful, funky images that showed they weren't like the other companies...they were a cool ̶m̶o̶m̶ company. but also that they knew their s**t. professionalism and stuff, yknow? i'm super super super chuffed with these photos! you take a nice 4 light setup and add a few gels et voila! you get some beautiful poppin portraits!

thanks for workin with me !! always thankful to make cool s**t with cool people.

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22/04/2025

big large huge enormous viscous massive funky juicy fermented thank you to the folks at for including me this year as a chosen winner! !! so so incredibly grateful to have been selected the very first year i've mustered up the courage to participate.

especially grateful to for the food wizardry and support to make this fantastical dinner happen 🦖

A7iii, 90mm f/2.8 Macro GM v1
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backdrop: Bone by
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