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Janelle Tong: Building Bridges

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  . Photography and Text by Janelle Tong, Copyright 2017 . BUILDING BRIDGES . For my individual project, I aimed to find a way to connect my work and learnings in photography to something related to my concentrations in Wharton: marketing and management. While many spectators would wonder how it would possible to translate these … Read more

Diary: Rooftop With a View of Beauty

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  Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2017 . DIARY: ROOFTOP WITH A VIEW OF BEAUTY . It was an unusually clear and cheerfully sunny day in Amsterdam when I called upon a local modeling agency that I was working with to cast models for an upcoming book project.  The agency sent over a … Read more

Tong Pow: Dance Props

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  Photography, Text and Video by Tong Pow, Copyright 2017 . DANCE PROPS: JUXTAPOSITION OF THE VIBRANT AND THE OMINOUS . The parasol used by the University of Pennsylvania’s  Pan Asian Dance Troupe in their traditional girls’ dance piece conspicuously, yet with veneration, carries with itself rich, deeply rooted, and controversial Chinese traditions. Though the … Read more