Ali G is a professional wedding, celebrity and product photographer in Hong Kong.  His romance with photography began in 1989 when his uncle gave him a 35mm camera as a birthday present. At the age of 16, Ali began documenting one of the modern world’s most important events: The fall of the Berlin Wall. Witnessing this unique event filled with emotions, colors and cultural diversity shaped Ali’s photographic style.  Since then, Ali has traveled the world in 32 countries and be homed in 6 of them, with the privilege of working in the United States, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Brasil, France, and the Philippines.

He currently resides and works as a professional photographer, social media and Web3 educator in Hong Kong. In between his international travel assignments and destination weddings, Ali is also a fonder of the Hong Kong Web3 Association. His sold-out social media and photography workshops also include such as Lan Kwai Fong Group, Adobe, Holiday Inn, Sassy Media Group and the Hong Kong Golf & Tennis Academy, to name a few. Furthermore, Ali gives 1-1 workshops for photographers, including in the areas of street photography, travel photography, portrait and food photography.

In October 2021, Ali launched his genesis NFT collection called ‘Hong Kong Red’, a collection of 15 unique images in 1/1 edition, shot entirely on mobile phones. The collection was minted on the Sloika NFT platform and was sold out, the first of its kind from Asia! In December 2021, Ali was invited as an NFT artist to join the IMXHK 2021 hyper cars show, featuring the likes of Ferrari, Tesla and Pagani. The IMX collection is called ‘Hong Kong Story‘ and features 3 super rare NFT art pieces. Over the years, Ali has been a featured speaker at WOW summit and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His Artwork has been displayed at shows in Hong Kong, Times Square in New York, Rome and Bali!

Ali has also been a content creator for Huawei and he has been very fortunate to have the the following mentors:

• Mr Henry Dallal, The portrait photographer of her Majesty the Queen of England
• Mr Ashraf Talaat, National Geographic
• Mr Massoud Hossaini, Pulitzer Prize Winner 2012
• Ms Nadine Markova, Photographer at Time, Newsweek, Life, Playboy and National Geographic

Highlights:

• Hong Kong Red NFT collection(sold out): https://opensea.io/collection/hong-kong-red-by-ali-g
• Published in The New York Times, Hello Magazine, Times of India, Vogue and so on.
• The New York Times Article
• Hollywood: Behind the scenes photographer for Oscar winners Shirley Maclaine and Christopher Plummer on the movie set of Elsa & Fred in New Orleans, including Oscar nominated director Michael Radford and Oscar winning producer Ed Saxon (Silence of the Lambs).
• Photographer at LVMH including Dom Perignon, Krug, Moet Chandon, Hennessy and Belvedere
• Featured artist in the 2020 Extraordinary Exhibition by Karen Leung Foundation in Hong Kong.
• Photographer for Moet Chandon’s ‘The Power of Film’ Gala with VIP guests Keanu Reeves, Uma Thurman, Fan Bingbing, Donnie Yen, Lisa S and Karen Mok
• Official photographer at the International Indian Film Academy(IIFA) Awards in Macau.
• Judge for the 2014 Egypt International Photo Contest