DKU Captures is the official photography club of Duke Kunshan University. Founded in 2019, DKU Captures’ mission is to showcase how its members perceive the world through their lenses. We offer exhibitions, contests, workshops, trips, and various kinds of social events. The club is open to all DKU students, staff, and faculty interested in photography, regardless of available equipment or skill level. If you’re passionate about photography, or learning how to best make use of your camera, or capturing different styles of photos, DKU Captures is the place to learn, develop, share, and, most importantly, have fun and connect with fellow photography lovers.
Meet The Team
Huang Bihui (Honey)
Founder
Honey is from Islamabad, Pakistan. She is a junior majoring in Media & Arts: Creative Practice track. Her interests lie in many different areas, but she is most passionate about photography, translation works and food! She founded DKU Captures in Spring 2019 so that there is a platform for fellow photographers to showcase their work and be able to share with each other the passion for still images.
Yinchu Lu (Rudy)
President
Rudy is a junior at Duke Kunshan University majoring in Media and Arts: Creative Practice Track. She is from Taipei, Taiwan. As a documentary photographer and filmmaker, her works aim to exploring the intersection between environmental ethics and Chinese religions with ethnography research. Currently, she is working on a photo essay centering on life in a Chinese water town and a documentary about Chinese environmental conservation practices.
Zainab Farooqui
Secretary
Zainab is from Lahore, Pakistan. She takes pictures of the sky more often than not, but also enjoys street photography. Contact her about any suggestions or ideas you have for club events as well. If you just want to chat, feel free to contact her about anything anime/music/book related!
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Danming Kang (Camilla)
Treasurer
Camilla is a sophomore student intending on majoring in data science. Usually she manages the club’s budget proposal and reimbursement for club activities, also helps out with other affairs.
Jihong Chen (Rebecca)
Communications Outreach Officer
Rebecca is a sophomore at Duke Kunshan University majoring in Political Economy: Public Policy Track. She is from Shanghai, China. Personally, she possesses great interest in visual art. She enjoys combining topics like environment, health and urban planning with photography. She now works on a DII project called “Disappearing Water Towns” with Rudy and Honey, which aims to help water towns achieve sustainable economic growth through creative work.
Susan Lin
Website Editor
Susan is a freshman at Duke Kunshan University pursuing a major in Political Economy: Public Policy Track. She is from New York, USA. She is a budding photographer and enjoys capturing wholly ordinary moments of joy, sorrow, excitement, and fear. Her favorite photo that she's taken is of a sunset in the Amazon.
Xiaoyi Li (Sherry)
Website Editor
Xiaoyi is a freshman at Duke Kunshan University. She is from Beijing, China. She is interested in all forms of painting and designing and has 5 years‘ of experience in composing layout on mainstream platforms such as WeChat and Instagram. She has been exploring practical frameworks of experimental art recently.