About Us
Overview
About Alister Benn
About Juanli Sun
Our Services
Overview
Available Light Images Ltd. was formed by Alister Benn & Juanli Sun in 2005 and has grown into a multi-faceted company offering products & services in quite diverse areas of Photography and Education.
Both Alister & Juanli believe that photography is a life skill that once learned opens doors to living and experience that may previously have been closed, or left unfulfilled. Photography is our expression, our statement based on our perceptions, beliefs and philosophies.
The Subject of our images is not important; whether stalking Butterflies in a summer meadow or examining intricate ice crystals in an Alpine lake – the principles are transferrable skills. The only prerequisite is to open your eyes and start to see, and there is no day better than today for that.
In 2011 Alister & Juanli with their best friends Rafael Rojas and Anca Minican founded Whytake LLC and launched Whytake.net – The Global Community of Nature Photographers.
About Alister Benn
Alister was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1966 and grew up in the quiet and beautiful countryside of Perthshire, where he developed an insatiable appetite for the outdoors. Many photographs were taken at the time with his first SLR camera, and had soon progressed from memory joggers to expressive images based on his experiences in the natural world.
A career in International Finance took him all over the world, and in 2000, while working in Beijing, he met his wife-to-be Juanli Sun, and that team was formed.
Alister has devoted thousands of hours to his own personal photographic development, studying various and diverse techniques to formulate a style that is all his own. He has enveloped these years of study into a well thought out and structured learning process he calls The Language of Light, which will be rolled out finally in 2012-13.
Night Photography has become something of a signature style for Alister, and many of his best known images are taken by Available Night Light. His first eBook – An Introduction to Available Night Light was published in September 2011 and has had in excess of 8000 downloads by December 2011.
The complete course is being prepared for release in 2012-13.
About Juanli Sun
In complete contrast, Juanli Sun was born in a remote corner of Hubei Province. China in 1977, she knew little of the western world, but unlike her peers, she harbored desires to travel and experience a world beyond the paddy fields and mountains of her homeland.
She left school and attended art college for 3 years studying art & design, graduating to her degree course in Beijing University, and followed that with an MBA in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Meeting Alister in 2000 opened her eyes to the natural world, and it is this that has gone on to formulate her whole life philosophy. Together they travelled to many countries including New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, Colombia and much of western Europe. But her heart is still in China and the couple continue to live in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China.
Juanli, unlike most photographers hardy shoots at all, she can go 6 months without picking up her camera, but when she does, the images she produces are life statements for her. A firm belief that an image is a statement of self, and that over-producing is simply a dilution of thought and intent. She is a native Mandarin speaker, but is also fluent in English and Cantonese.
Our Services
Personal Tuition – Alister is available for personal tuition based out of Lijiang, Yunnan, China. The tuition topics are based on the forthcoming Language of Light Program, and encompass 3 distinct subjects – Vision | Capture Techniques | Processing & Expression.
Products & Services – Available Night Light™ & The Language of Light are in development and should be ready for release in 2012-13.
Corporate Services
Available Light Images has provided images and services to corporate clients for a number of years now, notably the German Ceramics company Villeroy & Boch, and the Grouse Nest Resort on Vancouver Island, Canada.
Alister has extensive experience in Architectural and Interior Photography, and ran the successful A3 Gallery in Beijing from 2007-2008, specialising in Architectural Images.
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