Ying Ang is a photographer and author born in Singapore in 1980. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia, and has also lived in Sydney and New York. She works in documentary, from deeply personal narratives to abstract and conceptual work. She lectures at the International Center of Photography in New York and is a board member of the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne.
Her book Gold Coast won the New York Photo Festival and Encontros da Imagem book prizes for 2014. Her third book, Fruiting Bodies (Perimeter Editions, 2025), follows Gold Coast and Yellow River. It photographs mushrooms found on daily walks near her home in Melbourne as symbolic portraits of women. Her work is in the collections of the State Library Victoria, the National Library of Australia and MoMA, and she exhibited at Rencontres d'Arles and at Melbourne Now in 2023.
