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Ph.D. candidate in modern Chinese History at Berkeley, I am currently writing my dissertation on wartime China (1937-1945) and taking photos in my spare time. I have been taking photos for ten years, but only in the last year have really begun pursuing it passionately. I shoot three main genres: (a) street photography and 'urban fragments' , (b) landscapes or scenics, and (c) abstracts. I work primarily with film, in black and white, with my 35mm rangefinder (Zeiss Ikon ZI) and an old Minolta Autocord (TLR, medium format), but am hoping to start doing some medium format pinhole work shortly as well. My workflow is hybrid (part film, part digital). I process my own black and white film at home, using Barry Thornton's two-bath formula because it delivers very fine grain and high accutance, yet still controls contrast (highlights) automatically without the need for tight temperature tolerances. But then I scan the film and work digitally in Photoshop instead of a traditional darkroom. I am currently working on four photographic projects. One: a series of street portraits, tentatively titled "California Couples". Two: a series of street photographs on themes of loneliness and alienation. Three: the "urban carnival" of the fantastic and absurd in the Bay Area. And four: a group of pinhole images of detritus on the beaches of Point Reyes National Seashore. A more introspective project of "self-reflections" is also slowly taking shape as I find suitable windows in which to explore myself reflected in the external world. Limited edition, archival prints of my black and white images are available in 5x7 (full frame) and 8x12 (full-frame) sizes, archivally matted or unmouted; email for details. |
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