Every Monday, I feature an image and backstory from my Pointe of View series. We started the day at 4am with hair and makeup and then took a cab at 6am to the famous Tidal Basin of D.C., encircled with its monuments and the beautiful Japanese cherry blossoms that grace the area with their fleeting pink puffs…
What is there to say about New York City that hasn’t already been said? Perhaps the more you come to New York or the longer you live here, the more the city envelops you. Those who are less optimistic might say it swallows you whole. I usually set my own pace on trips, no matter…
Every Monday, I feature an image and backstory from my Pointe of View series. Ivy is the only ballerina that I actually knew prior to photographing her for the Pointe of View project, so I was thrilled to be able to meet up with her for this beautiful shoot. We headed to a neighborhood in Bethesda, Maryland…
From this morning’s visit to the 9/11 Memorial in New York City to this afternoon’s news of the Boston Marathon explosions, I have felt as if someone has tied a string around my heart and been tugging at it insistently, testing my capacity for tragedy and pulling me out of the surreal luxuries of my own life….
Every Monday, I feature an image and backstory from my Pointe of View series. This week, a sneak peek from one of my two ballerina shoots with the beautiful cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. We started the day at 4am in order to catch sunrise at the Tidal Basin, and even at sunrise, the Tidal Basin was…
In this last post of my Taiwan trip, we start in Taroko Gorge, a beautiful national park on the eastern side of Taiwan, and finish with my last few days in Taipei for Lunar New Year. With a hike through a waterfall tunnel and a soak in a natural hot spring at the base of the…
Every Monday, I feature an image and backstory from my Pointe of View series. Last week, I introduced some of the amazing hair stylists and makeup artists who have helped my vision for Pointe of View come to life. I already had a general aesthetic and a style in my mind that I wanted to create for the…
We were walking through Kaohsiung’s Central Park at night, the park mostly empty but for a few young couples strolling through and the constant hum of cars and motorbikes on the surrounding streets. Alice and I were talking about her last couple months since moving from the U.S. to Taiwan, and she brought up an…
Every Monday, I feature an image and backstory from my Pointe of View series. This post is dedicated to the talented hair stylists and makeup artists who have created all these beautiful looks for the ballerinas. I personally tend to be very minimalist (lazy?) about my own hair and makeup, so I can understand the tendency to…
It’s hard to know where to begin when it comes to Taiwan. It’s my history, my family. It’s political. It’s personal. It had been six years since my last visit, but since I was traveling to Japan, I had to seize the opportunity to take an extra side trip to Taiwan. My first impressions were…
I had the incredible opportunity this past week to attend and photograph a runway show by famed designer Jason Wu. The event, titled Jason Wu: The Art of Fashion, was hosted by the San Francisco Opera Guild and Neiman Marcus – Union Square in San Francisco’s iconic City Hall. I was there in my capacity as Editorial Director of TaiwaneseAmerican.org, so I…
Every Monday, I feature an image and backstory from my Pointe of View series. The delivery of rewards from the Pointe of View series is officially under way! Here are some glimpses at what my intern Rosa and I were up to last week. The first things to go out were these small prints, but rest assured,…