Asia Cinematographer - Ryan Potts (Rynos)
Ryan Potts, who works as Rynos, is a Canadian Director and Director of Photography based in Guangzhou. He shoots commercial, fashion, and documentary work across Asia, and runs the whole production on the ground as one trusted point of contact. English-speaking, Mandarin-fluent, twenty years in the region.
Most DPs are rooted in a single city. The ones who move fluently between mainland China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, holding real crew relationships and production knowledge in each, are rare. That range is the difference between a shoot that happens and one that stalls.
His work spans CHANEL, BVLGARI, Huawei, DHL × BBC StoryWorks, ESPN, Grand Hyatt, and XPeng, across China, Hong Kong, Thailand, France, and beyond.
Where Rynos shoots
- Guangzhou - home base, South China
- Shenzhen - tech and product capital
- Mainland China - Shanghai, Beijing, and beyond
- Hong Kong - SAR, cross-border productions
- Macau - tourism, hospitality, heritage
- Shanghai - China's commercial capital
- Bangkok & Thailand
- Singapore, Japan, South Korea - on request
One lead. The whole machine. Direct.
Bringing a brand or agency shoot to Asia, you don't need a chain of local agencies each adding a margin. Rynos assembles and runs the production directly: crew, art, makeup, locations, fixing, translation, and the shoot itself. You work straight with the person making your images, and you skip the agency-chain markup.
Plug him into your existing production hierarchy, or hand him the whole thing. Either way it's one point of contact, one creative lead, and one person accountable for the result.
What makes an Asia-based DP different
Production in Asia doesn't run the way it does in Europe or North America. The language barrier is the part you can see. The parts you can't are what cost you days: permit systems, local crew communication norms, the unwritten rules around location access, equipment transport across borders, and the cultural read certain briefs demand. Two decades navigating all of it is not the same as flying someone in for a single shoot.
For you, that shows up where it counts: fewer days lost to miscommunication, fewer surprises on the day, and a creative partner who reads both the international brief and the local reality.