Writer, photographer, host of @ChannelOpenPod and @LikeWiseFiction. Always tired. He/him.
Mar 24, 2021 • 39 tweets • 6 min read
I've been thinking a lot about social media lately, about why it feels particularly challenging for me lately. I think a lot of us—maybe most of us on Twitter—feel increasingly unseen and unheard. Social media offers at least the promise of a remedy for that.
I think most people want to feel like their existence matters, that it has weight and importance. I think most people want the opportunity for their perspective or emotions to be noticed and given consideration.
Mar 24, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
This is an interesting article and while I'm personally a little conflicted about my name(s), I like the idea of taking pride in one's Asian name and of course support others doing so publicly.
For me, like Susan, my Japanese name (Kenji) is legally my middle name. I think of it as my Japanese name, but I have never felt comfortable going by that name. And, more to the point, no one has ever called me by that name, inside my family or out.
Mar 22, 2021 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
So... softly-lit portraits of serious-eyed children mixed with found domestic tableaux, laced through with symbols of mortality and ephemerality are exactly my aesthetic, which is to say that of course I love these images.
All of my biggest early influences were women looking at their own families: Elizabeth Fleming, Andi Schreiber, Sally Mann, etc. This is what made me a photographer.
