Kiliii Yüyan's guest appearances

Kiliii Yüyan

Story Untold Podcast

We Are Photographers

Jasmine Star

David DuChemin

Kesha Lambert

Grace Chon

Jen Rozenbaum

Hilaree Nelson

Benjamin Von Wong

Omar Z. Robles

Cristina Mittermeier

Ibarionex Perello

Frederick Van Johnson

Ami Vitale

Lynsey Addario

Mark Wallace

Ryan Robinson

OwlTail

Kiliii Yüyan is an award-winning Documentary Photographer and contributor to National Geographic Magazine and other major publications. Informed by ancestry that is both Nanai/Hèzhé and Chinese-American, much of his work explores the human relationship to the natural world from different cultural perspectives. Kiliii is one of PDN's 30 Under 30 Photographers (2019), a National Geographic Explorer, and a member of Indigenous Photograph and Diversify Photo. In addition to being a photographer, Kiliii builds traditional kayaks professionally, has mad primitive survival skills and most of the year can be found working on stories in the circumpolar Arctic. As a creator, working in remote parts of the world often requires building relationships with people who rarely interact with outsiders. Cultural norms you are accustomed to won’t necessarily apply. In this episode, Kiliii shares his experience working in the arctic and offers a number of insights to help you build genuine relationships with collaborators, and ultimately, a better finished project. This is We Are Photographers with Kiliii Yüyan and this is his story.Connect with Kiliii Yüyan: kiliii.com | InstagramAt CreativeLive we believe there is a creator in all of us. If you’re looking to get fresh perspectives, inspiration or skills to boost your hobbies, business or life head over to creativelive.com and check out The Creator Pass, our subscription that gives you anytime on demand access to over 2000 classes taught by the world’s top creators and entrepreneurs.Connect with your CreativeLive community: creativelive.com | IG @creativelive | TW @creativelive | YT @creativelive | FB @creativeliveConnect with your host Kenna Klosterman: IG @kennaklosterman | TW @kennakphotoSubscribe, rate &amp; review We Are Photographers wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts! We’d love to hear from you. 

Kiliii Yüyan is an award-winning Documentary Photographer and contributor to National Geographic Magazine and other major publications. Informed by ancestry that is both Nanai/Hèzhé and Chinese-American, much of his work explores the human relationship to the natural world from different cultural perspectives. Kiliii is one of PDN's 30 Under 30 Photographers (2019), a National Geographic Explorer, and a member of Indigenous Photograph and Diversify Photo. In addition to being a photographer, Kiliii builds traditional kayaks professionally, has mad primitive survival skills and most of the year can be found working on stories in the circumpolar Arctic. As a creator, working in remote parts of the world often requires building relationships with people who rarely interact with outsiders. Cultural norms you are accustomed to won’t necessarily apply. In this episode, Kiliii shares his experience working in the arctic and offers a number of insights to help you build genuine relationships with collaborators, and ultimately, a better finished project. This is We Are Photographers with Kiliii Yüyan and this is his story.Connect with Kiliii Yüyan: <a href="https://www.kiliii.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kiliii.com</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kiliiiyuyan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>At CreativeLive we believe there is a creator in all of us. If you’re looking to get fresh perspectives, inspiration or skills to boost your hobbies, business or life head over to<a href="https://creativelive.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> creativelive.com</a> and check out <a href="https://www.creativelive.com/creator-pass" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Creator Pass</a>, our subscription that gives you anytime on demand access to over 2000 classes taught by the world’s top creators and entrepreneurs.Connect with your CreativeLive community:<a href="http://creativelive.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> creativelive.com</a> | IG <a href="https://www.instagram.com/creativelive/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@creativelive</a> |<a href="https://twitter.com/creativelive" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> TW @creativelive</a> | YT <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/creativelive" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@creativelive</a> | FB <a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativelive" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@creativelive</a>Connect with your host Kenna Klosterman: IG <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kennaklosterman/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@kennaklosterman</a> | TW <a href="https://twitter.com/KennaKPhoto" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@kennakphoto</a>Subscribe, rate &amp; review <a href="http://creativelive.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We Are Photographers</a> wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts! We’d love to hear from you.

Kiliii Yüyan - Connect to the Land

In photographer Kiliii Yüyan’s work, he has drawn on both wilderness survival skills and empathy — qualities he deems “critical” for the projects he embarks on in extreme environments and cultures outside his own. “Human cultures are the most complicated things to understand,” he says. “Human culture is so rich. There’s so much to it.” In Part 2 of his appearance on Story Untold, he talks about animism, searching for meaning in his late teens and early twenties, and the importance of representation in journalism. “In the past, journalists have been known to do a lot of things where they just kind of parachute into a place. There’s a lot of this sort of old-school journalism … like, ‘If I’m a good journalist, I should be able to drop into any place in the world and make a story out of it,’” says Yüyan. “[I think] a good journalist goes in with an openness and an understanding that you don’t know everything — far from it.” Photo provided by Kiliii Yüyan. Blurb adapted from kiliii.com.

In photographer Kiliii Yüyan’s work, he has drawn on both wilderness survival skills and empathy — qualities he deems “critical” for the projects he embarks on in extreme environments and cultures outside his own. “Human cultures are the most complicated things to understand,” he says. “Human culture is so rich. There’s so much to it.” In Part 2 of his appearance on Story Untold, he talks about animism, searching for meaning in his late teens and early twenties, and the importance of representation in journalism. “In the past, journalists have been known to do a lot of things where they just kind of parachute into a place. There’s a lot of this sort of old-school journalism … like, ‘If I’m a good journalist, I should be able to drop into any place in the world and make a story out of it,’” says Yüyan. “[I think] a good journalist goes in with an openness and an understanding that you don’t know everything — far from it.” Photo provided by Kiliii Yüyan. Blurb adapted from <a href="http://kiliii.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kiliii.com</a>.

Kiliii Yüyan (Part 2): “Let reality unfold before you”

Storytelling has always been a part of Kiliii Yüyan’s life. As a young Chinese-American, his earliest stories came from his Nanai grandmother — stories of hunters riding orcas and roaming the seas. Today, a kayak builder, Nia Tero Storytelling Fellow, National Geographic photographer, and sought-after speaker, Yüyan explores the “human relationship to the natural world,” often through stories of polar regions and Indigenous communities. Yüyan is a Pulitzer Center grantee and one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers. On assignment, he has “fled collapsing sea ice, weathered botulism from fermented whale blood, and found kinship at the edges of the world.” This episode has been edited and condensed for clarity. Part 2 of Kiliii’s story comes tomorrow. Photo provided by Kiliii Yüyan.

Storytelling has always been a part of Kiliii Yüyan’s life. As a young Chinese-American, his earliest stories came from his Nanai grandmother — stories of hunters riding orcas and roaming the seas. Today, a kayak builder, Nia Tero Storytelling Fellow, National Geographic photographer, and sought-after speaker, Yüyan explores the “human relationship to the natural world,” often through stories of polar regions and Indigenous communities. Yüyan is a Pulitzer Center grantee and one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers. On assignment, he has “fled collapsing sea ice, weathered botulism from fermented whale blood, and found kinship at the edges of the world.” This episode has been edited and condensed for clarity. Part 2 of Kiliii’s story comes tomorrow. Photo provided by Kiliii Yüyan.