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Oakland Science Fair

Last night was an interesting experiment in convergences of threads of my life: photography meets teaching meets Duke meets TAF. A couple weeks ago, I brought some of my students to a Dinner with Scientists event hosted by our Oakland Unified School District science department. Of course, while we were there, I was snapping away…

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Adam Wang

Adam Wang is an actor based in Los Angeles. In fact, he’s the killer that James Van Der Beek is chasing down he whole time in Formosa Betrayed. And he delivers some great lines in flawless Mandarin at the end. While he was up here visiting the Bay Area, Adam wanted to do dramatic artsy…

Shawna Yang Ryan

Shawna Yang Ryan

Shawna Yang Ryan is a talented hapa Taiwanese American writer whose debut novel, Water Ghosts, was just released on Thursday. This week, I met up with Shawna for a late-afternoon shoot on the UC Berkeley campus. Read the spotlight article we just posted on TaiwaneseAmerican.org and visit Shawna’s website at shawnayangryan.com to learn more. Last,…

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Henry Chu

I seem to have let myself get backlogged with all my daily adventures! These images are from last week when actor Henry Chu came up from Los Angeles to do a second photo shoot with me. I met Henry over Thanksgiving dinner at Jon Lee’s; Henry’s one of the killers in Formosa Betrayed– Taiwanese American…

Glamour Overload

as i mentioned in the previous post, TAFers converged on the bay area last weekend, and we had a rather ridiculous photo shoot, inspired by jon and howard’s taiwan glamour shots from five years ago. for those of you who have never experienced asian glamour shots, it basically goes like this: they dress you up,…

Ho Chie

ho chie tsai. regular everyday superhero, taiwanese american celebrity. he founded taiwaneseamerican.org; knows pretty much every taiwanese person on the face of this planet; oh, and being a doctor at three different sites is just his day job. lucky for me, i’ve known him since i was 10, a brand new camper at TAF. in…

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Henry

police officer, gang member, hip college student, slacker, intern… i can’t guarantee any of the photos will be usable headshots as intended. but it was a really fun 3 hours! there were close to 400 images, so these are just some of my initial picks: Check him out at www.henrymchu.com

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Paola

happy new year! and what better way to begin 2009 than with one last shoot in cincinnati before i head back to california. paola’s a soprano about to finish her master’s. i had a great time with her in a very empty ccm.

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Caroline Part Three

it was a beautifully sunny day in columbus– except i had forgotten what windy 3° weather actually feels like. but not to worry, i finally got to meet and work with caroline in person. we stayed warm and took over weigel hall at ohio state. here’s a bit of what we came up with.