Seaver School Alumna Charis Cheung Publishes Pictures in Vogue Singapore | Newsroom

The pictures of Charis Cheung (’25) was featured in a 2025 version of Vogue Singapore. Cheung’s {photograph}, which captures the actress, singer/songwriter Audrey Huynh,
served because the function picture for a profile piece within the journal’s January/February
version—a outstanding achievement that shocked even the burgeoning photographer herself.

“When I found out, I was living in denial for a little bit,” Cheung says. “ It was
simply actually thrilling. Now I can say my photos have appeared in Vogue, which is big for my profession as a photographer.”

Cheung, who graduated from Pepperdine University as an Integrated Marketing Communication
main in May of 2025, managed her personal pictures enterprise all through her time as
an undergraduate. The picture that went on to look in Vogue Singapore happened within the typical vogue: a shopper, having seen Cheung’s images on
social media, reached out. 

Huynh particularly requested Cheung to develop a photoshoot that will accompany the discharge
of a brand new EP. With these directions, the younger photographer developed a temper board,
scouted places, and pitched an aesthetic imaginative and prescient to her new shopper. After the 2
agreed on the main points of the undertaking, the true work started—taking the precise photographs—which
requires using some vital tender abilities along with technical experience.

“It’s a ability to get somebody to be comfy in entrance of you and the digicam inside
simply an hour,” explains Cheung. “You should get them to open up and be susceptible,
and that solely comes with a number of affirmation.”

In getting ready for the shoot, Cheung had listened to and contemplated the context behind
Huynh’s latest music, and used this understanding to offer her mannequin with useful
storylines for every {photograph}. By encouraging Huynh to behave in entrance of the lens,
Cheung was in a position to seize and edit a bunch of participating photographs. Only after these photographs
appeared in Vogue Singapore did Cheung study that Huynh was not solely a musical artist; she was additionally the lead
antagonist within the Netflix present XO, Kitty. 

Cheung’s most up-to-date achievement represents a big step ahead in her development
as an artist, one which began for her in eighth grade. After shopping for her first skilled
digicam, Cheung was decided to grasp portrait and editorial pictures. She hosted
photoshoots together with her mates, posted photographs to Instagram, and slowly began to amass
a following.  The unstructured time afforded by the COVID-19 pandemic supplied a chance
for Cheung to start utilizing TikTok to point out viewers a behind-the-scenes perspective on
her photo-taking course of. These posts generated extra followers. 

Now with a big viewers, Cheung is sponsored by quite a lot of completely different digicam manufacturers
resembling Canon and FujiFilm, however extra importantly, she’s been in a position to efficiently
develop her fame as a artistic and dependable freelance photographer. For Cheung,
nonetheless, pictures is about greater than accolades and notoriety.

“I’ve always loved meeting people,” she says. “I really like studying about individuals, and for
me, pictures is a strategy to forge relationships with others, whereas working towards one thing
I take pleasure in.”

Through her built-in advertising communication research at Pepperdine, Cheung gained
vital insights into rising the enterprise aspect of her ardour. She realized, for
instance, method social media as a real advertising software, defining her goal
viewers and posting photographs and movies throughout peak site visitors hours on particular days. 

While she has labored with intention for her success, Cheung has made some extent of protecting
pictures enjoyable, utilizing it as a connective software, and being open to no matter is subsequent—digicam
or no digicam. “I do not need to set extraordinarily excessive expectations for my enterprise as a result of
if I do, I will not take pleasure in it,” she says. “I’ve a blurry imaginative and prescient of what I need to obtain.
But I’m nonetheless subconsciously engaged on it. . . . I assume we’ll see.”