I’m a self-taught photographer who shoots with both film and digital cameras. My debut project, “Ballet on Film,” which follows a Honolulu ballet school as it navigates and innovates during the pandemic, won an international award from The Photo Review and a Series Award selected by PF Bentley. “Ballet on Film” has been the cover story of Hana Hou! and a piece from the collection was selected as Best of Photo Vogue. In addition, my work has been exhibited in Honolulu and New York.

I first began experimenting with cameras and photography in my 30s with an iPhone. After a few years of shooting digitally, I watched Finding Vivian Maier and everything changed. Soon after, I acquired my first and still my favorite film camera, a 53-year-old Yashica 635. The majority of my film work is shot with this camera and on Kodak Portra 800.

Learn more about me in the interviews for Asian Archives and Romer Waikīkī.