A week in Santa Fe with Peter Yang

I had the enormous privilege of studying under Peter Yang for a week in Santa Fe. It's hard to put into words how much I learned… so I'll do it in pictures.

One big takeaway for me: When you're an editorial photographer shooting on location, you have to be able to enter a situation and build a set out of anything. You have to do it quick, and it doesn't always have to make sense. You have to feel it and seize it. Like… when I grabbed a mop bucket from a closet and asked the model to sit in it.

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Day 4

I recommend that any photographer try out the Santa Fe Workshops.

2018 Special Olympics USA Games

This was by far one of the best experiences of my career. I got to photograph athletes at the Special Olympics, which took place on the University of Washington campus. Here are some of my favorite shots. And here's the article.

I was assisted by Ken Yu and Olli Tumelius.

The Flavr Blue… with blue

I shot some portraits of The Flavr Blue. And I used blue. A guy only has so much originality in him.

Professors with projectors

What's more teacher-y than a slide projector? For this year's winners of the Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest honor a University of Washington professor can receive, I concepted a projector photoshoot with Columns Magazine art director Ken Shafer. He designed some amazing slides that tapped into the subject matter of each teacher. We were assisted by Ken Yu.   

The full article, which I also wrote, is here. It imagines a day in the life of a student who has all of these teachers in their class schedule at the same time (Ken Shafer's idea). 

Special thanks to photographer Jeremy Cowart who answered my technical questions via email.

Suzie Pun, Bioengineering

Karam Dana, Middle East Politics/Foreign Policy

Ekin Yasin, Communication

Alexes Harris, Sociology

Megan Ming Francis, Political Science

Chelsea Wood, Aquatic Sciences

Danica Miller, Native American Literature

Jane van Galen, Digital Communication

Simoné in the studio

I reconnected with a radiant old pal, Simoné, in my studio. We went to college together and worked on the student newspaper. Here are a few frames.