Meet Rachel and her hearing dog Rosie! Rachel is deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She recently got the opportunity to receive a hearing dog to assist her in everyday life, and especially with alerts such as letting her know if a fire alarm goes off or if someone is at the door. Rachel attended…
It was such a joy to meet Rachel and walk through Crissy Field with her. We captured some portraits for her public speaking business, in which she speaks about her experiences with hearing loss, deafness, and cochlear implants. Here are a few of my favorite images, below: Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer…
I have known Terry for over a decade, since the last time he lived in Oakland. He has since been on a long journey, moving around the country and enduring a slew of difficulties and heartbreaks. But he is now plotting his return to the California and the next phase of life, including his new…
A couple months ago, my dear friend Do-Hee hired me to photograph some portraits for her brother Shawn, who just graduated from medical school. Despite the global pandemic, or perhaps even more so because of it, we’re all being asked to celebrate our wins and mark special moments in whatever safe, thoughtful, creative ways we…
Catherine is a freelance singer based in Sacramento, and she reached out to me to photograph some new portraits and headshots for her auditions and promo materials. We chose San Francisco City Hall with all its marble and grand architecture as the perfect backdrop to these photographs. See a couple of my favorites below. …
Meet my friend Rosanna, a gorgeous, multi-talented stylist and writer living in New York City. It’s been a decade or two since we last saw each other at summer camp, so I was glad to reunite with Rosanna and roam the streets Greenwich Village for this beautiful portrait session. Anna Wu is a wedding and…
Reunited! With my dear friend Talya, who makes periodic appearances on this blog with all her glamorous portrait sessions. This time, we met up in Berlin, where she is now a full-time opera singer with Komische Oper Berlin. See just a couple of my favorites from our shoot below! Anna Wu is a wedding and…
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the February 28 (228) Massacre in Taiwan. Tens of thousands were murdered by the Nationalist government that had fled China and taken over rule in Taiwan, and martial law was imposed for 40 years thereafter. Incredibly, Taiwan has since become a vibrant democracy fighting the continued battles of defending civil rights for its…
It was such a pleasure to photograph Grace of HapaMama. She’s been following my work for a couple years thanks to our Taiwanese American connections, and I finally got to meet and photograph her last month. We met up in downtown San Jose and grabbed a combination of family portraits and headshots for Grace. See some…
Meet Maria, the talented calligrapher and illustrator behind Wort:pracht. We met at my studio to photograph some images for her brand new website, coming soon. Catch a glimpse below. You can find more of Maria’s work on instagram, @wortpracht. Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer based in San Francisco but often jetsetting and eating…
Ronny is a talented pianist based out of San Francisco. He needed some new photographs for a new website he’s building, so we met in the city for a brand new set of portraits and headshots. See a couple of my favorites below! Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer based in the San Francisco Bay…
On February 28, 1947 began the infamous events of “228,” a widespread massacre of tens of thousands of Taiwanese by the Nationalist (KMT) government that had recently arrived from China. The 228 Massacre became a taboo topic in the subsequent years of martial law that extended through the 1980s and had ripple effects that were felt…