PHOTOGRAPHY
AURA OF
SPRING
Creative Direction: August Cao (@augustisloading) and Grace Li (@gracestills)
Photography: August Cao and Grace Li
Designs: Ana Straton (@disgruntled_romanian), Briani Netzahuatl (@brianinet), Julián Perez (@x.ulian)
Models: Liana Harris (@liana.ah), Justice Rossman (@blondedjustice), Julián Perez
Dev/Scan: Pro Image Photo (@proimagephoto)
CAT LUO
FOR RATROCK MAGAZINE
For Cat Luo’s Featured Artist Profile in Ratrock Magazine, we decide to boil it down to the basics with traditional studio portraits with a quirky twist around campus. To see their full profile, click here. Below are selected imaged from the photoshoot.
COWBOYS
IN THE CLASSROOM
Models: Ashe Lewis (@ashelewis_), Dariya Subkhanberdina, Grace Fox (@gracesfoxes)
Photographer: August Cao (@augustisloading)
Creative Direction: Grace Li (@gracestills), August Cao (@augustisloading), Justice (@blondedjustice)
RICHARD LEE
FOR RATROCK MAGAZINE
For Richard Lee’s Featured Artist Profile in Ratrock Magazine, we looked to merge Lee’s interests in photography, music, and electrical design together into a photoshoot that spanned two days. To see his full profile, click here. Below are selected imaged from the photoshoot.
“Fishing Day” in Great Lakes Review
HOOT MAGAZINE ISSUE 21: Digital Best Friend
Directed by Celeste Ramirez, Digital Best Friend is a conceptual project that imagines a future with a digitalized/virtual best friend figure that mirror your personality and style. This project was done for Hoot Magazine, a student run fashion magazine at Barnard College. Please click here for the entire issue.
Thank you to the following contributors for making this project possible:
Director: Celeste Ramirez
Models: Ashe Lewis, Oscar Ortiz, and Mariame Sissoko
Digital Editors: Joyce Jiang and Oscar Ortiz
Stylists: Ashe Lewis, Celeste Ramirez, Oscar Ortiz, and Mariame Sissoko
Makeup Artist: Khushi Bisht
Special Thanks to: Jennifer Guizar, Cristina Herrera, Barbara Whitehurst, and Barnard Mujeres
Thank you to Great Lakes Review for publishing my work! Click here to check it out on their website.
Statement: “Fishing Day” is a photograph that I took over the summer in a park located on the south side of Chicago. Taken on expired 35mm film, I felt that this photo captured a connection Chicagoans have to nature that is typically forgotten because of the large cityscape that overshadows how close the city is to the water: Lake Michigan. As someone born and raised in the city, Lake Michigan was a staple to my experience of the city, a luxury even to be so close to the Great Lakes. While this photograph is not located at the actual shores of Lake Michigan, it exudes the same serenity many Chicagoans feel being near the lake, away from the bustling cars for just a moment on a summer day.
CHICAGO MADE CHICAGO SEEN
a project for The Photograph and The Book, taught by Professor Naeem Mohaiemen
Image from the Columbia Undergraduate Visual Arts Showcase.
CHICAGO MADE CHICAGO SEEN is a hand kettle-stitched book which shows how we embody where we are from. The first half of the book highlights front facing portraits where subjects are the center of attention. The second half of the book reveals how, with subjects’ backs turned from the camera, subjects become a part of the landscape.
This single copy of the book was displayed during the Columbia Undergraduate Visual Arts Showcase April 2022 along with all the other photo books produced in the class The Photograph and The Book, taught by Professor Naeem Mohaiemen.
front cover, pictured: Kate M.
pictured: Karime S.
pictured: Ji Hae Y.
pictured: Jin A.
pictured: Nia S.
pictured: Olive L.
title page(s)
pictured: Jin A.
pictured: Damayanti W.
pictured: Kate M.
pictured: Karime S.
pictured: Jin A.
back cover
close up of kettle stitching
WRITING
Publications
Cover Art for We by Noire Lin
“Embodying Sex” to be published in Sinister Wisdom 122 (October 2021)
“Through Love and Tribulation: Holding Space and Conversations with My Family” in HANA 2021 Center’s Civil Leaders Fellowship zine (Sept 2021)
“Untitled” in Silk Club’s QUIET 06 (April 2021)
We with Revolving Door Arts (June 2018)
“Alexis” in Big Shoulder Books’s Write Your Heart Out (February 2018)
Publication in 826CHI’s Compendium V (2016)
Awards
Reading of “An Ocean Away” at the Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards Ceremony in 2018
“An Ocean Away” for Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Award 2018
“Prayer” for Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Award 2017
multiple Scholastic Arts and Writing regional awards that I cannot remember
Writing Features
narration for “From the Mind of a Scholar Artist” for ChiArts
poetry snippet for Poetry Magazine’s campaign across Chicago