Short Bio
A Photographer and Artist Telling Stories of Place and Time
Statement
As an artist I am initiating a conversation or a story with my image—the inverse of listening to a podcast and seeing an image in your mind. I craft photographs that move beyond a moment and depict time, emotion, and relationships through light, frame, focus, space and shadow. As a 4th-generation, Cantonese-American, gay male, Oakland artist, I have a specific perspective and a unique story I want to share in my work, and my urban planning and community advocacy background draws me to places and communities that also have stories to tell. My work is evolving to include more people, most crucially because I want to depict Asian Americans in my art and make our lives and stories visible.
Biography
As a gay-male, fourth-generation, Cantonese-American, Northern California-based photographer and artist, I have a specific perspective and a unique story I want to share in my work. While I was trained as a landscape architect and urban planner, and have worked and volunteered in LGBT, Asian-American, civic, public space and arts communities my whole working life, I haver also been seriously taking photographs and making art and developing my practice since my teen years, and showing and selling work for the last twenty years.
