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Silent War Enters the Film Festival Circuit
Wish Us Luck! For the past four years, I’ve served as the Assistant Director to award-winning filmmaker (and my former professor), Changfu Chang’s upcoming film, Silent War: Asian American Reckonings with Mental Health. After years of production, we’ve finally entered the film festival circuit! Last month, we started strong, learning Silent War was selected for… Read more
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New Resource Hub of Wellness Apps, Podcasts & More for People Healing Trauma
Digital Tools to Guide the Way While the documentary, Paper Birds, aims to start a discussion, the hope is for the film’s website to guide viewers’ next steps. The last addition to the resources tab was a master list of book recommendations directly sourced from trauma survivors across a number of online communities. Now, we’re returning… Read more
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A New Photo! (And A Little Story)
A Warm Surprise Alas, a new photo! Probably not as cool as I envisioned it in my head, but this was inspired by a pretty recent moment: I was working in my room late at night on Paper Birds this past weekend, and my mom came into my room unexpectedly and just started running her… Read more
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Film Stills In Honor of PTSD Awareness Month
A Short Reflection June is PTSD Awareness Month. In honor of that, I wanted to share a few stills from my upcoming documentary, Paper Birds. I was 20 when I was officially diagnosed with PTSD after a traumatic memory from childhood resurfaced the summer prior. It took me a year and a half to begin… Read more
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Finishing Strong: A Photo Farewell to Lancaster EMS
Finishing Strong As one of my final acts as Lancaster EMS’ Director of Marketing & Development, I photographed our entire leadership team. The headshots will be used for a variety of purposes, but most namely for the new website I designed which will hopefully be up and running soon. So happy with how these turned… Read more
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Reflecting 5 Years on: Documenting the Pandemic
Has It Really Been 5 Years? While my first step into photojournalism was during my senior year of high school, this was really the event that propelled me into this kind of work. Funnily enough, I don’t think I’ve shared that first photo of Evie on here before, despite it being such a good reflection… Read more
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