Let’s just admit it. The last two years have been pretty crummy. COVID has been a real issue and messed up a lot of our plans. I’ve come to realize that sometimes that’s just how life is though: The best laid plans don’t always go somewhere and sometimes the unplanned superfluous circumstances that you never thought of end up being the journey that you take for years. Being a documentary wedding photographer was my plan for many years. When COVID hit and I saw things changing, it brought to light a lot of things that I had been thinking about and some self-adjustments I had to make. One of the ..read more

I haven’t posted in a while. It’s been a long time. It was just a few days ago that the fireworks happening in all parts of the world as we all collectively rung in the new year of 2022… and with a new year comes new opportunities. As I sat down and looked at some of my old photos and old posts from a while ago, I thought to myself that it was finally time to start to come back again and turn back on the pilot light that was my photography passion. You see, COVID really put a damper on that. 2020 and 2021 were really rough for me. I saw some major bookings fall out and as we all battled ..read more

ALL DREAMS COME TO AN END I remember doing research early on in my photographer career to determine what I was really interested in. I recall seeing the photographs of Jeff Ascough, a documentary wedding photographer based in the UK, and thought to myself… that would be really awesome to do. I have been a professional photographer for the last 8 years. In that time, I’ve been a part of over 40 weddings of cultures of all kinds, many many events, multiple family sessions and of course a part of Chinatown’s history documentation. Fast-forward to 2020 and in light of the coronavirus pandemic I h ..read more

One of the great things about documenting weddings is the opportunity to get to know friends and family of the bride and groom that I never would have met in other circumstances. In 2018, I documented Alex and Vania's wedding in Yaletown. In 2019, I received a message from someone named "Hae-In" who asked about my wedding availability. At first I was like "who is this?" but I later found out that she was at the wedding of Alex and Vania the year before. After further chatting, I found out she was Alex's sister! Unknowingly to me, in 2018 I was already documenting her. On the day of the weddin ..read more

To say that 2020 has been a crazy year is a bit of an understatement for many of us. From COVID19 to lockdowns to an economy hit hard by the effects of said events, 2020 is a year that I think many will be looking forward to put behind us. Despite it all, it is our resilience and our hope in something greater than has allowed us to thrive and survive in these times, including myself. Natasha “reflects” on her wedding day as she gets her hair done in the morning The girls have a moment to paint Natasha’s nails. Once COVID19 hit and we went into lockdown here in Vancouver, I stopped focusing o ..read more

It’s been 7 years since I started the Documenting Chinatown personal photography project and it has grown into a much bigger thing than I had ever anticipated. I made friends, I ventured into new places and tried new things … and got to document it all through the power of photography. And in the end, I made a book! A book on Chinatown… IN Chinatown…. is that meta or what? BUY THE BOOK The book “I Was Lured Into A TeaShop” was not a book I had planned to make at first. I had only planned to do a 1 year project and then … well, I had no idea to be honest. But the end of 2013 signalled the begi ..read more

I took many years but finally I’m releasing my first Chinatown Book “I Was Lured Into A Tea Shop”, encompassing the early parts of my Documenting Chinatown Project. Life changes, busy schedules and something called a pandemic had put this release on the backburner for a bit but it was always my intention to document Chinatown for the sake of making a book. So here it is! The foreword is written by Melody Ma, a huge Chinatown advocate whom I met after 2015. I recall us having conversations reflecting on the vast changes happening in Chinatown at the time and realizing my photographs showing thi ..read more

Cows go moo, ducks go quack, peacocks go “???”. These are some of the things we learned as we took a trip to Maplewood Farms in North Vancouver.  Born out of the COVID19 Pandemic, this guide is here to serve as information of some places to consider going if you’ve binged all your Netflix, played all your games, baked all that sourdough bread and maybe just want to get out (or find things to do to stay in). As a family man myself and also a photographer who likes to explore, I found it difficult to find things to do to keep myself and my little one busy at home (there’s only so many time ..read more

With Summer having arrived, it was the perfect time to make a trip to a fruit farm and pick some fruits… and in this case, we decided on blueberries. Despite the heat, we had a lot more fun in the bushes picking blueberries than we thought we would. Born out of the COVID19 Pandemic, this guide is here to serve as information of some places to consider going if you’ve binged all your Netflix, played all your games, baked all that sourdough bread and maybe just want to get out (or find things to do to stay in). As a family man myself and also a photographer who likes to explore, I found it diff ..read more

With BC starting to go into Phase 3 of COVID19 response, a lot more people are taking this time to get out of their houses/apartment-units and looking for places to go. With Summer having arrived, a lot of people are heading to the beach. Having been inside since March, that was definitely where we wanted to go. We wanted a beach that was far enough away to (possibly) get away from the busy beaches… so we found ourselves at Centennial Beach. Born out of the COVID19 Pandemic, this guide is here to serve as information of some places to consider going if you’ve binged all your Netflix, played a ..read more