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Finding a focus in fashion

Cassidy Chen takes a UBC path into the image-making world.

Original reporting by Geoff Gilliard

Finding a focus in fashion
CommunityCassidy Chen’s story is about the discipline behind an expressive field. A self-driven approach can look effortless in a finished image, but focus is built through repetition, collaboration and a willingness to keep editing. For an alumni issue, fashion photography is a useful reminder that creative careers are careers: they have craft, clients, constraints and a public body of work.Photo: Geoff Gilliard

Where the work begins

Cassidy Chen takes a UBC path into the image-making world.

What follows

Further reporting continues across the university network.

At a glance

  • Campus: UBC Vancouver & Okanagan (Point Grey & Kelowna)
  • Focus: Community impact & civic life (Community)
  • Outcome: Verified reporting (September 2026 issue)
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  1. Original reporting · magazine.alumni.ubc.ca

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