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222 Gallery Tonight!

December 19th, 2008

I’m displaying one of my photographs at 222 gallery! Opening reception is tonight at 6PM. I did a quick google search and found the show to be featured in several blog/news outlets such as Philebrity, High Snobiety and Uwishunu. Woohoo! [autoviewer id = “2” width = “900” height = “675”]

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Rooftop Movie Night

December 16th, 2008

This post is long overdue as we did Rooftop Movie Night almost a whole month ago, but nevertheless, here it is finally! Rooftop Movie Night involves taking a video projector and speakers, climbing onto my neighbour’s rooftop and then projecting Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas”  onto my other neighbor’s wall. The white canvas screen we […]

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XPLR website revamped

November 29th, 2008

The website for XPLR has had a much needed make-over. I hope you like the new design. Check it out for yourself at http://www.xplr-club.com.  Next item on the agenda is putting together our portfolio. Putting all the bits in one document should be a good way to celebrate our one year anniversary! I get a little nostalgic going […]

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DJ Excel

September 28th, 2008

Sosena and I went for our last shoot in the sneaker culture series and captured DJ Excel at his house in North Philly two weeks ago. Since I just bought two speedlite flashes I was eager to experiment with my new equipment. I have long been a fan of David Hobby, whose philosophy is to […]

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Sole: the underground world of sneaker culture

August 25th, 2008

I’ve been helping my friend Sosena with her documentary on underground sneaker culture in Philadelphia by doing the photography for her. You can find more about her work here. I haven’t gotten to see the whole movie yet but I heard it’s awesome. See trailer on the right. My photos here. She’s had a couple […]

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Kal-‘ee-for-nyah

August 9th, 2008

I’ve been working as an intern (company bitch) this summer at Willow Garage based in Palo Alto, California. Palo Alto is a cute little town but honestly it can be seen in about a half a day. So I’ve been exploring San Francisco in the weekends whenever I can. I have to say I’m in […]

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