At first he planed to be a fine art artist but he turn into a graphic designer later he discovered himself a skillful photographer doing the job of creative art director in the imagination world of Ricky Heng photo illustration. Ricky Heng was born on August 13 1968,in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a secondary school student, Ricky was actively involved in fine art & design which led him to pursue his further studies at the Malaysian Insitute of Art, majoring in graphic design & later continue his studies in computer graphics. Ricky began his career as a graphic designer at an advertising agency. He continued this line of work at a few agencies for some years. But as he was deeply in love with the art of photography, he has turned his serious hobby into a career as a professional photographer. At present, Ricky is attached to the SUN newspaper, a local English daily, as a press photojournalist. As a press photographer combined with the knowledge of graphic design, Ricky's portfolio demonstrates bold and innovative use of colour, along with the contrast of black & white in the design element of his images to solve boring composition and to bring out the mood & concept in his pictures.

Besides fine art & design in photography, Ricky also specialises in digital Photo illustration by using digital photo retouching in photoshop applacation especially when faced with simple boring daily assignment where impact is needed to turn Sun Megazine assignment into complicated conceptual Megazine cover assignment. As a proffesional creative photographer who always maintains the consistency in finding ways to solve problems in complicated photography assignments with tight deadlines, Ricky Heng always works his way out based on a modern saying "always find an excuse to brew tea" where he himself and his tea-loving friends share artistic moments on tea ceremonies to ease pressure & tension. This is important to Ricky Heng in obtaining calmness & inspiration to mind & body for starting a fresh new day where assignments can appear to be "beauty in the eyes & music to the ears". Ricky Heng's creative effort in digital photo illustration & photography brougth a bold step into the wolrd of Malaysian publiscation espacially the press line.

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