I grew up in Xiamen, a beautiful port city in Southeast China's Fujian Province, where I first learned photography from my Mom's Uncle, Ker Lin, a Middle School English teacher from the Philippines. Every Summer and Winter break, he would take me on travel adventures through China while teaching me how to use a camera and develop film to forever capture the people and places we visited. Encouraged by his support and guidance, I know I had found my passion. (In fact, Uncle Ker also had a strong influence on two of my cousins, who have gone on to become famous photographers in Guangdong,...more