Fangyi “Frank” Fan: Meaning of Makeup

  Photography, Text and Video by Fangyi “Frank” Fan, Copyright 2018 . MEANING OF MAKEUP . Is there relationship between a girl’s emotion and her makeup? The answer to this question is obvious, while this portraiture project tries to dive deeper to examine the true meaning of makeup. Observing Rongrong’s (my subject) daily routine after … Read more

Kathryn Brooks: Songstress Rises

  . THE WEST . By Kathryn Brooks, Copyright 2018 . Everyone says We were made for the West You and I Everyone says We’re the best You and I Oh, oh, woah oh Oh oh oh Everyone says We’re a mess You and I Everyone says We’ll regret The wasted time But we’ll pitch … Read more

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