Wei-Li Yeh was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1971 and emigrated to the United States at the age of 11 with his family. During his adolescence, in Tampa (Florida), he became fascinated by heavy metal music and music rock’n’roll. He studied photography at the University of South Florida (1994) and in Rhode Island School of Design (1997). After a visit in 1996 to Taiwan was attracted by the issues of displacement, assimilation, cultural identity and racial policies.