About

Michelle Yee is an Asian Canadian writer, photographer, & artist in San Francisco.

While Michelle has always been passionate about storytelling, she started her career as a commercial photographer in Toronto, Canada where she specialized primarily in editorial portrait, lifestyle, and documentary photography, and worked with a wide range of clients that included Mercedes-Benz, VICE, The Associated Press, Royal Bank of Canada, BUST Magazine, University of Toronto, Public Health Ontario, and The Globe and Mail.

In the summer of 2014, she co-founded SOFIA, a women’s photography collective that was active from 2014-2018. Together, SOFIA launched two group exhibitions, showed work internationally, and launched a year-long mentorship program for emerging women photographers.

In 2019, Michelle launched a Kickstarter campaign and raised $23,350 USD to independently publish her first book project, After That August; a photographic memoir that shares the personal story of how she returned to love after a divorce.

Michelle is currently at work on a memoir and publishes ongoing essays and photographs through A Living Record.