Photos
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Half Frames Around The Tenderloin
The Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco frequently gets a bad rep, but I could not live anywhere else in this city. I live on a block where I get to speak my first language, the Teochew / Chiu Chow dialect of Chaoshan, with all of the Southeast Asian Chinese people here who own restaurants, grocery stores, and who…
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Five Frames from Ceylon
Between 2013 and 2016, I went to Colombo quite frequently for work and relaxation. An old friend of mine from school lived there, and it was such an easy flight from Singapore that I found every excuse to go there, really. The scuba diving is phenomenal, too. This past year, Sri Lanka has been in my thoughts. The…
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Outtakes from a cookbook
In my mid-20s I was involved in the production of several cookbooks behind the scenes. That helped start a love for food. I helped to write and photograph a cookbook for an international hotel chain's Dubai restaurants, which had all types of cuisines (their Thai chef also taught me how to cook the Thai food I now love…
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My wedding in film and digital
My friend Javad Tizmaghz, an excellent photographer and even better woodworker, took our photos for our wedding. It's important to note that queer marriage is not recognized in our home countries. We took these photos, and then we went to Auckland, New Zealand, for the actual ceremony. It was only fitting that these…
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Hello 35mm my old friend
I have always loved film photography. I love everything about it. From the moment I was given a disposable film camera as a child, to collecting old cameras and taking them on my travels, I love the whole process of waiting to see what photos I come back with. Like so many others, I have been mostly digital for a…