After nearly 20 hours of travel and a nine-hour time difference — including a red-eye flight where none of my neighbors slept, and consequently neither did I — I landed in France for the 79th Annual Cannes Film Festival. Arriving in the city of Cannes via Nice international airport, the no-nonsense style, etiquette and speech…
This past summer, I was asked to photograph my family reunion in North Carolina. Compared to our previous gathering four years ago, this one was incredibly significant — we were having it near the plantation where our ancestors worked as slaves. I was intent on figuring out how to best capture the significance of the…
In the late 20th century, a progressive new wave of cinema emerged in Hong Kong, resulting in the release of hundreds of notable films, such as “The Butterfly Murders” (1979) and “Rouge” (1987), that celebrated the lives of the city’s citizens and embraced grotesquery. Split into two parts, the “first wave” spanned from the late…