Cannes First Impressions
After nearly 20 hours of travel and a nine-hour time difference — including a red-eye flight where none of my…
Photo Essay
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Portraiture: The Language of the Camera in Digital and Film
This past summer, I was asked to photograph my family reunion in North Carolina. Compared to our previous gathering four…
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Reclaiming the Male Gaze: Learning to See Through Film Photography
I’ve questioned my own gaze for years. As a small child, I observed my three sisters — triplets eight years older than me — become women, and marveled at the power, allure and dynamism in femininity. Simultaneously I saw men lie, cheat and be violent in their reach for women. And I’ve gazed at myself in the mirror, watching my perception of self shift from day to day. My own perception of myself is as capricious as the winds, rising and falling with my mood, my cycle, the day’s events.
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Independent inspiration from the work of Wong Kar-wai and the Hong Kong New Wave
In the late 20th century, a progressive new wave of cinema emerged in Hong Kong, resulting in the release of…
