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{{short description|American photographer}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Sacha Dean Bïyan
| image       = Sacha_Dean_Biyan.jpg
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1967|10|01}}
| death_date  =
| death_place =
| nationality = Canadian
(contracted; show full) [[Bachelor’s degree]] in [[Robotics]] and a [[Master of Science]] in [[Aeronautical Engineering]]. He worked as an [[industrial designer]] in the [[aerospace industry]] for several years, designing interiors of private and commercial jets.<ref>[http://www.sachabiyan.com/about Sachabiyan.com]</ref> However, his affinity for photography led him to switch careers again in the late 1990s.

Bïyan began experimenting with [[cameras]], [[photographic film]] and [[darkroom]] techniques at an early age
, inspired primarily by the works of [[Edward S. Curtis]], [[Sebastião Salgado]], [[Richard Avedon]], [[Irving Penn]], [[Helmut Newton]] and [[Guy Bourdin]].<ref name="new_pioneers">[http://www.thefwa.com/article/photography-the-new-pioneers The New Pioneers]</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=thefwa.com is not an independent source. (See the talk page.)|date=April 2019}}. While he had no formal training in photography, he has said that "I got my schooling on the streets, photographing just about anything and anyone, and learning from my mistakes... Those experiences taught me more about photography than any classroom ever could."<ref name="Instagram">[https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-bpbrl1r6/?igshid=l06ctxa7khrb Instagram]</ref> Bïyan initially worked in [[commercial photography]] before veering more towards [[photojournalism]] and [[filmmakin(contracted; show full)
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[[Category:1968 births]]
[[Category:Fashion photographers]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:American photographers]]
[[Category:Anglophone Quebec people]]
[[Category:Artists from Montreal]]