CREATIVE DIRECTION
ART DIRECTION
CAMPAIGNS
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LINA L’MAN
ANNETTE WELANDER
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THE OWNER X WANGDERLAND
'17 - YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL VOL 1, WEST BUND ART CENTRE, SHANGHAI
'17 - YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL VOL 2, WEST BUND ART CENTRE, SHANGHAI
'18 - PHOTOFAIRS SHANGHAI, "DE-FRAG-MENT"
FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Alina de Groot
Alina founded Big Lab in 2024. Before that, she worked for fifteen years as a fashion photographer under the name Lina L’man.
Her editorial and commercial work has appeared in Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Grazia, Tatler, Vogue China, Fucking Young! and Vanity Teen, with exhibitions at West Bund Art Centre and Photofairs Shanghai.
She also has a Masters in Psychology from Saint Petersburg State University.
Image-making is about people - how you read them, direct them, and understand what makes an image feel convincing.
She started working with generative tools in 2024. What interested her wasn’t AI for its own sake, but what it made possible: making images without some of the usual limits of production.
The tools are different. The way she looks at an image isn’t.



