The year ended with something of an unremarkable denouement, but that was probably a good thing. I feel like it’s commonplace to people feel, as they get older, like the last chunk of the year feels less and and less holidayish. That was particularly true for me this year. Not that it was a bummer, […]
Taiwan Ho
My first new city in a good long while, hello Taipei! Spent near a week wandering about with Sean and our friend Jesemy (a local? a foreigner? depends?). Thank you, visa-free entry for Filipinos! This could not have been possible without you. Or maybe it could have, but it’s nice to have one less layer […]
Double Vision HKG
Around the time I was doing weddings, I decided to stop lugging around a DSLR on a daily basis. Aside from the obvious weight issue (Nikons are heavy bishes), I was having trouble disassociating work from leisure, my own photography from my “brand”‘s photography, if that makes any sense. It just made everything feel like […]
Aotearoa
After six months of sitting on these photographs I finally got around to editing them for posting. I’ve just not really known what to do with them until… really, last night. I’ve not really known what I’ve been doing with my own work lately. I think I worked so intensely in this medium for five […]
American artifacts
It’s certainly been an interesting past couple of days on this here planet we call home. Drumpf’s election might ring a few alarm bells for those of us living here in the archipelago, as it just feels all too familiar. That plus recent events here locally have got me feeling fearful, helpless and disconnected. That […]
NYC 2016
Spent some time on the east coast of the U.S. earlier this year to photograph a wedding, hang out with friends, spend time in Brooklyn and be sick all over my host’s living room. It was my first long haul trip by myself, so i got to do all the things i wanted to do […]
Tokyo, Osaka
Happy new year, everyone! Here’s the second wave of images from my trip to Japan in November. I felt like the character of these images was vastly different from my Kyoto images, which is why I decided to space them apart. I’m quite a moody editor when it comes to these blog posts: I’ll edit […]
Kyoto
Everyone’s in Japan, and so was I! Walked through Kyoto for a few days and filled my lungs with fresh-ish autumn air. Learned that you have to make sure when you’re buying a drink from a vending machine to pay attention to the temperature of your choice. Otherwise you just end up with a mouthful […]
hong kong sentimental
Some photographs that collected on my phone from the last six months of living in Hong Kong. I wasn’t sure whether or not I was staying in HK to work or moving back home (spoiler alert: I moved back home), so these were all born of me haphazardly trying to remember stuff. A note on […]
Bantayan
Over the summer, I did a field internship with a Dutch-Filipino video installation artist named Martha Atienza, who is based half the time in the Netherlands, and the other half of the time in a small municipality of Bantayan Island by Cebu, called Madridejos. I joined her in Madridejos and helped out with a fine […]
Bangkok
Visited Bangkok in October of last year with my good friend, Ann. It looked and felt suspiciously like Manila, from the elevated train (all the streets look like Taft) down to the delicious, reasonably priced food and the supernice people. And the traffic! And the doughnuts. Man. There are no doughnuts in Hong Kong, i’ll […]
Summer 2013
Overdue, but better late forever.
Tokyo
I was in Tokyo for a couple days with my mother! It was my first time, and I made sure to go all over: Harajuku, Tsukiji, Ginza, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Daiba, Ueno, Ebisu, Akihabara, and snippets of other places. I really enjoyed myself! I tend to raid 7-Eleven when i’m in a big city because it’s […]
In Between
This project was done for my Photo Documentary class, taken in the Spring of 2013. I documented the walk from where i live in Hong Kong to where i go to school, a bus ride that i take every single day. I would always see things from the bus and think, “Damn i wish i […]
Transitions
Spaces between places.
Entropy Beast
Hong Kong is a great city to get lost in, by virtue of the fact that its sheer randomness gives its streets so much gosh durned personality. It is overrun with weirdness and i like it, and this post will make that evident, but it’s a disciplined entropy. The trains are seamless and efficient. I’ve […]
Singapore
Welcome to the new blog, everybody! This is where i’ll be relegating my personal, non-wedding/love/romance/loveydoveyschmoopy work. It is to encourage me to continue to create it! To kick things off, i’m posting some of my photographs from a recent trip to Singapore. I actually went over there to shoot a couple (wouldn’t you know!), and […]
New York, New Jersey, Illinois
This post brought to you by the realization that reflections of buildings are more interesting than buildings themselves. The pictures were taken at various locations around Manhattan in New York, Long Beach Island, Atlantic City and Princeton in New Jersey, Chicago and the various little ‘burbs of Illinois, within a three-week stretch towards the end […]
General Santos + Montemar
I’ve been on some trips lately. All the way down south to Lake Sebu in General Santos to see the T’Boli weavers and a teensy bit up north to Montemar Beach Club in Bagac, Bataan. Here’s the backlog of my photographs from them. The panorama is clickable. Happy summer boys and girls!
Puerto Princesa
Photos from Puerto Princesa in Palawan from the summer of 2009.