My Portfolio
Award-winning Photographs
Art Competitions
Award-winning photographs
OC Artist Of The Year
Themes of Human Experience & The Impact Of Time
Placement: 1st in Photography Division 1
"Her curiosity and observation impressed the judges, along with the skills she has at 16. A junior, she’s eager to study architecture and photography in college."
- Theresa Walker | Orange County Register
Irvine Fine Arts
Whispering Emotions
Placement: Excellence in Photography
Description: “Whispering Emotions” is part of a sustained investigation into how long-exposure portraits can visually convey deep, inner emotion. This image experiments with color by emphasizing the subjects in unexpected ways. The colors traditionally tied to joy, sadness, and confusion are deliberately switched to highlight the quiet chaos within one’s mind. The image captures the daily struggle of trying to balance these emotions whispering through your mind — not because they’re bad, but because they’re always there, layered and real.
Young Kim Congressional Art Competetion
Echoes of a Desolate Land
Placement: 1st place in the photography category
Description: This is an image of a solitary dead tree rooted in the ruins of a once-thriving, vibrant land, embodying a quiet moment of fear, loneliness, and depleted life. The tree’s dark shadow echoes a timeless truth—that nothing lasts forever, not even despair. Yet beneath this stillness lies a lingering moral idea: Though unseen now, spring will return, and from the ashes of loss, new life and unexpected beauty will emerge.
OCArts4All
Last Ring-Call of the Past
Placement: Excellence in Photography
Description: The image centers on an old telephone booth, surrounded by deep, curved shadows that make certain blacks deeper and draw your eye to the subject. It’s a nostalgic reminder of a time when phones like this were part of everyday life—each call a different story. How many calls ended with a slammed hang-up? How many calls were dialed excitedly to share joyful news? This phone is a memento of the past, inviting us to pause and remember an era we don’t see anymore, but should never forget.
2023 OCArts4All
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Placement: Excellence in Photography
Description: The broken-apart, vintage, gas pump signifies the beauty we find in the passing of time, how only when one has broken apart, can we see the complicated inner workings of the past. The image encourages the viewer to take a moment to recognize the past's simplicities, imagine a time in our distant past, finding the beauty of recalling.