Category: Interviews

A desire to see familiar places with fresh eyes, to honor imperfection, and to reconnect with the magic found in everyday life.

My grandma is visiting for the Lunar New Year, and I am documenting her recipes with illustrations. My sketchbook is currently full of scallion pancakes, kimchi, and dumplings.

It’s been really fun shooting live performances on film and interviewing artists and organisers. I also do work covering protests and events that happen in my city.

I’m interested in how images can inhabit space, how sequences are built, and how a book can function almost like a structure—something you enter rather than scroll through.

There’s a quote by Susan Sontag that says: “To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.” While her statement is completely true, photography for me has been a way of savoring what surrounds me, not excluding it-

I think each project can be a great teacher if you listen carefully. Working with large-scale entities is always something I find enlightening, as you do get to see the inner workings and behind the scenes of companies that shape the current discourse and economy.

I enjoy working with error, with time, and with chance—slower, more experimental processes where each image becomes almost an event.

I am planning to travel and document the lives of people who still live close to their traditions and to nature, and through this process, to understand them and myself more deeply.

These specific works—the pencil drawings and the woodblocks—carry more texture. They are more labor-intensive and require patience, repetition, and resilience.

Around that time, it became a creature that inhabited my home, whose cloth-covered gaze I couldn’t escape in any corner of my room. Something familiarly melancholic made me want to photograph it in its everyday coexistence.

You have to keep shooting as often as you can to stay inspired. If you keep practicing photography, you’ll be able to get out of the rut and find inspiration and motivation.

Every time I hear that someone used to be vegan but gave up, I lose a bit more faith in humanity.