Rina Yang

Rina Yang (born 1986) is a British cinematographer based in London. She became the first Asian woman to join the British Society of Cinematographers and was named a 2020 BAFTA Breakthrough. She was also the first woman cinematographer to be nominated for a BAFTA Cymru for fiction. She won a VMA for her work on Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero".

Early life Born to a Korean family, Yang grew up in Japan. As a creative child, her mother encouraged her to take up still life and portrait painting; she became interested in film at 16. Yang initially intended to study economics at university, but was inspired to leave Japan at 20 by a friend who lived in England and pursue a creative field. She graduated from the Met Film School with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Practical Filmmaking, awarded by the University of West London.

Career From 2012 to 2015, Yang began her career doing music videos for a number of folk, rock and electric artists. Her portfolio expanded significantly in 2016 to the likes of Corrine Bailey Rae, Blossoms and FKA Twigs. Yang also worked with artists such as Dua Lipa, Zara Larsson, Niall Horan, and Björk, and Sam Fender across 2017 and 2018.

Yang was credited with additional photography on the Channel 4 comedy-drama The End of the F***ing World (2017), She earned a BAFTA Cymru nomination for her work on the Through the Gates installment of the anthology On the Edge (2018).

In 2019, Yang worked on three episodes of the Netflix crime drama Top Boy for its third series. She reunited with FKA Twigs for the music videos "Cellophane" and "Home with You", Charli XCX for "2099" with Troye Sivan, as well as Dua Lipa in 2020 for two tracks with Madonna. Yang filmed Stella Corradi's BBC One film Sitting in Limbo (2020) on the Windrush scandal as well as Nadia Hallgren's documentary Becoming.

Yang appeared on the British Vogue list of 12 Young Creatives in 2021 and joined the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC) in 2022. Yang began working with Taylor Swift on All Too Well: The Short Film (2021), earning Yang her MTV VMA nomination. Yang was invited back for Swift's Midnights music videos the following year and won a VMA for "Anti-Hero". Also in 2022, she gained prominence as cinematographer of an episode of the HBO drama Euphoria and Nikyatu Jusu's psychological horror film Nanny. Yang further went into film with The Fire Inside (2024), for which she earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

Personal life As of 2019, Yang was based in Clapton, East London. "Bejeweled" "Lavender Haze" 2023 "Training Season" 2024 Dua Lipa "All over me"

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Awards and nominations Year Award Category Work Result Ref. 2019 BAFTA Cymru Best Photography and Lighting Through the Gates 2022 MTV Video Music Awards Best Cinematography All Too Well: The Short Film 2023 MTV Video Music Awards "Anti-Hero" Girls on Film Awards Best Cinematographer Nanny 2024 British Arrows Nike campaign Camerimage Golden Frog for Best Cinematography The Fire Inside 2025 Independent Spirit Awards Best Cinematography