Performing Non-Performance: The Photographs of Leniqueca Welcome

  Photography and Text by Leniqueca Welcome, Copyright 2016 . Performing Non-Performance: The Photographs of Leniqueca Welcome . As a former architect now engaged in doctoral research in anthropology, concerned with the politics of representation, my pictures foreground the agentive work photographs do as objects allowing persons to negotiate different ways of being.  My work … Read more

Alice Qiu: Chinatown

  Photography and Text by Alice Qiu, Copyright 2016 . Chinatown . As an international student from China, Chinatown has always been my favorite place. Whenever I travel to a new city, I will always try its Chinatown, if there is one. I’ve been to Chinatowns in Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Washington … Read more

Carolyn Wong: Artist Statement

  Photography and Text by Carolyn Wong, Copyright 2016 . It is amazing what an effect your surroundings can have on the person you become. Whether it is the location, the culture, or the people, you will find yourself changed. Between living in a female led household and attending 13 years of single sex education, … Read more

Kieran Koch-Laskowski: Nicaraguan Street Hound

  Photography and Text by Kieran Koch-Laskowski . Nicaraguan Street Hound . In June of 2013, I found myself at Houston Intercontinental Airport waiting to clear customs upon my return to the States. I stood anxiously with a duffel bag slung carefully over my shoulder, nervous that my ‘souvenir’ would bar me from getting home.  … Read more

David Pang: In Nature, I Just Am

.   Photography and Text by David Pang, Copyright 2016 . After completing my first year at Penn, I’ve learned two things about the school: time flies and appearances are everything. Everything that can be seen: clothes, grades, looks, is judged.  Everything needs to be flawless.  And we become so caught up in maintaining these … Read more