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Yeong-Ung Y.

Bellevue, WA, USA

7 reviews

$300 - $2500 / Day

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About

Yeong-Ung Yang is a NY Emmy® Award-winning photographer and filmmaker, who formerly worked for Newsday as a staff multimedia producer. He produces visual news reports as well as long-form documentaries. Daily assignments have given him access to a wide range of subjects—from a longtime underboss of the Colombo crime family was released from prison at the age of 102, Trump Impersonators with different political views performing in the Trump era. Going back to the subjects pivoting off answers and engaging them on his own makes for a higher level of insight. He also works with other reporters and the editors from the newsroom to further expand news coverage. Yeong-Ung helps conceptualize and visualize investigative contents such as "Testing the Divide,” a recent Newsday's documentary film an undercover investigation revealing evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents. As a cinematographer, he applied various visual skillsets ranging from setting up lighting and audio for studio interviews, portraits to aerial drone video. The piece won the Peabody Award in June, 2020. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Yeong-Ung has been focusing on documenting underreported stories that lay beneath the front pages. Works include a 7-month long video coverage of the Kurds in Iraq (2006), Asian immigrants riding casino buses as a lifeline(2013), and “Unvarnished,” a front-page New York Times series (May 2015), year-long in-depth investigation into the exploitation of nail manicurists who work primarily in Korean-owned salons. Series won Pulitzer Finalist in Local Reporting (Apr. 2016). Yeong-Ung co-directed a Love, mommy, a 30-minute PBS documentary film about a formerly incarcerated woman who is battling custody of her daughter(2017).

Top Services

Documentary DP
5 reviews
Landscape Photographer
2 reviews
News Shooter / Video Journalist
1 review

Clients

Top Reviews

  • February • 2024

    Yeong-Ung was great to work with and we hope to work with him again. The communication and quality of work was exceptional.

    Krissy at Social Kapture

Top Projects

Equipment

Camera

  • 4K Camera
  • Action Camera
  • Drone Camera
  • DSLR Camera

Audio

  • Directional Microphone
  • Lavalier Microphone

Miscellaneous

  • Shoulder Rig
  • Stabilizer

All Services

Production Support

  • News Shooter / Video Journalist
  • Documentary DP
  • Drone Operator
  • Corporate Videographer
  • Non-Fiction Film Director
  • Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
  • Portrait Photographer
  • Production Assistant
  • Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
  • Landscape Photographer
  • Digital Content Creator

Post Production

  • Video Editor - News
  • Video Editor - Documentary

Miscellaneous

  • Translator
  • Senior Producer / Project Manager
  • Fixer