is a journalist, copywriter, editor and producer drawing on global experience to tell brand and editorial stories. Primarily focused on the intersection of art, architecture, culture and social equity, she has previously worked with SPACE10 by IKEA, MPavilion and Design Hotels, and her words have been published in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Bloombery CityLab, The Nation, Teen Vogue, New Republic, Hyperallergic, Artsy, and GARAGE.
        She holds an MA in Journalism from Columbia University, where she specialised in urbanism and architecture through complementary studies at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning. Her master’s thesis explored place branding in Mexico City, while her research on modernist Uruguayan architect Mauricio Cravotto was included in (Radical) Functionalism in Latin America, published by Columbia University Office of Publications in 2019.
   She has ties to New York, London and Mexico City, as well as Dharawal and Gadigal land (Sydney), Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country (Melbourne), Awabakal country (Newcastle) and Larrakia country (Darwin).


Please see her portfolio here. 

She is available for photographic commissions to accompany her editorial work.


For commissions, projects or collaborations please get in touch:

Instagram: @annettella
annette.k.lin [at] gmail [dot] com





AS 客家 (HAKKA/GUEST) RAISED ON COLONISED LAND, I ACKNOWLEDGE ALL FIRST PEOPLES AND SOVEREIGN CUSTODIANS OF WHERE I PASS THROUGH AND EXTEND MY RESPECTS TO THEIR ELDERS AND ANCESTORS.