Emily Cheng: Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski

  Photography and Text by Wing Hei Emily Cheng, Copyright 2018. . Book Review . Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski . After reading John Szarkowski’s Looking at Photographs, I was struck by the obstacles that photographers faced in the pursuit of the perfect shot. As a lifelong digital photographer, it was inconceivable to me … Read more

Emily Cheng: The Masks We Wear

    Photography, Video and Text by Wing Hei Emily Cheng, Copyright 2018 . THE MASKS WE WEAR . At Penn, we struggle with expressing our emotions. “Penn Face,” hiding our hardships and failures behind a perfect facade, is a well-documented phenomenon on campus. We work so hard to maintain the illusion that we have … Read more

Diary: Portrait of the Day

. Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2018 . HANNAH . Hannah and I go back a long way.  The first time I photographed her was in 2003 when she was just 20 years old.  This picture was taken several years later in 2006 after she was almost killed in a horrible car accident … Read more

Diary: Maggie. Portrait of the Day

.     Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2018. . Portrait of the Day I met Maggie back in the 1990’s during a period when I was photographing a lot of young women in my hometown of Philadelphia.  Maggie is the daughter of my old friend; Neil Stein the visionary restaurenteur who transformed … Read more