Celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month Stories: Jennifer Elise Wang
a gallery curated by Flickr
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month and each week we’re highlighting the work of some of the community’s amazing photographers on Flickr. This week, we invite you to explore an album curated by the talented photographer, Jen, as she shares how photography serves as a means of connection for her. "My name is Jennifer Elise Wang, or just Jen. I'm a lab tech by day and primarily a writer, but since I was a kid, I knew that photography was another way to tell stories. I began with disposables cameras, capturing school and vacation memories and action sports competitions. In college, I took my dad's digital camera to take photos of cosplays at conventions, as well as my own costumes. Being a shy loner with many unique interests (as evident with this collection), I found photography to be a way to connect with people and participate in the scenes I love: action sports, anime, theatre, burlesque, to name a few. I did Project 365 during a turning point in my life: when I graduated college and moved to Japan. Although I wound up discarding many shots, I got hooked on photo challenges and themes as ways to view my life differently. I started creating my own and even hybridizing my writing skills with photography (and sometimes cosplay) to make albums that were stories. I mostly shoot events since I really started taking photography seriously during the period I wrote from websites covering Japanese music and pop culture. I was thrust into photographing concerts and fashion shows to accompany my reports so I practiced by shooting other events. However, I do love capturing nature too. This gallery shows not only how I've grown but also how photography has evolved, as these shots are from all types of cameras and I was taking selfies with a timer or a mirror before camera phones made them the norm. There are a couple of repetitive subjects to show how both my view of the world and the world itself change with time. Photography for me is making a unique connection with the world for a split second and capturing it in perpetuity while time marches on." -Jen See more of Jen's work and give a follow here
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