NCAA second round

A picture from the second round of NCAA men's soccer game at Albuquerque, NM.
New Mexico 2-1 Duke

Religion of Peace

Here is a video me and my friend Andrew Beale made for the 10 years anniversary of 9/11
Religion of Peace: Media (mis)Perceptions of Islam Ten Years since 9/11

Religion of Peace: Media (mis)Perceptions of Islam Ten Years since 9/11

Film by Junfu Han and Andrew Beale

Tibetan monks in ABQ

I had a assignment last week to take photos of some Tibetan monks's visiting in ABQ
two pictures: their performance in Old Town Plaza and a portrait by the UNM Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

Shai, (a work in progress)

I'm still working on the video project about Shai, the boy with autism.
I just a big debate with myself about using color photos or black&white photo. Finally I decided to choose color.
I have total 170gb of footage. Hopefully I will have a trailer coming out soon.

below is two photos of Shai and his father Michael.

my last day with Rep-Am

Today is my last day of this 10-week summer internship with the Waterbury Republican-American
except the weather and humid, it has been a fantastic summer for me, I learned a lot not only about journalism but also everything about life
especially two days ago when I heard my rodeo school story has been picked up by AP and featured on Sunday advanced story

here are a few pictures of the newspaper building and the tower which is the tallest in New England area

Thank you Connecticut and all the newsroom people at Rep-Am!

I will be leaving here next week and enjoying my real summer vacation.
Adventure continues...

A day with Shai

Recently, I'm working on a project with a school in New Haven about the special program they have for kids that have autism
Today, I spent a day with Shai at his house, we also went to Knights of Columbus Museum and a Greek pizza restaurant(his favorite restaurant)
I will be back to meet him again on my next day off Thursday.
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more photos will be shown after I finish this project

a day on a blackhawk

I had an assignment about the National Guard's forest fire fighting training in Riverton, CT
and I had a chance to get on a Blackhawk helicopter, that was a really cool experience

Rodeo School in New England Day2

another day shooting the one and only rodeo school in New England

A Simple Question project in Torrington, CT

filmed during the Arts & Culture Commission in Torrington, CT

4th of July

Above: three photos from three different assignments
1. skydiving in Torrington,CT
2. William Hung with his dad before his performance
3. children playing magic bubbles before fireworks starts in Waterbury Municipal Stadium

Two years ago, I was at the Rainbow Gathering in Cuba, NM
Last year, I was in China doing my Three Gorges Dam project
This year, I was doing assignments in Connecticut

Rodeo School in New England Day1

I spent this morning and half of the afternoon at the one and only rodeo school in New England
it locates in Canaan, CT

this is just the first day of getting to know what is it like
I am looking forward to go back and meet them again next weekend

here are a few picks from today's shooting.
Jim Shannon, thank you for helping me editing the photos

Goshen fairground

seems like I will send the entire weekend in northern Connecticut
a story about the Goshen Stampede
and a story about the only one rodeo school in New England

a picture from today's picture hunting, after the thunderstorm and before Goshen stampede started

steeplechase

I have to say this, I've waited for shooting steeplechase for two days.
I was covering the Connecticut State Boy's decathlon and Girl's heptathlon in New Britain these days. But I missed the girl's steeplechase yesterday because I have to go to another assignment.
Today, I waited from 11:30am to 3:30pm for shooting this event. and here is the picture,

a Jamaican wedding

one of my four assignments today is to photograph a wedding that the couple (both Jamaicans) requested guests to bring food as wedding gifts, and the food will be donations for Connecticut Food Bank

this photo is from the wedding but nothing related to the assignment.

high school graduation

I covered the Westover School 's graduation ceremony today. And Bob told me that I will have a lot more high school graduation to shoot in the following days.

This area has 48 high school, so far we have only covered 1/3 of the graduations.

back to work

I just had two days off, so I took a bus trip to NYC and experiment with the app Hipstamatic on my iPhone. will post some of those pictures soon.

I had three assignments today, a baseball game, a golf game, both are high school sports and a standalone photo about the local baseball team in Torrington.

below is a picture I took during the baseball game, but not from the actual game

Memorial Day

I worked on Memorial Day, took a lot of parade photos. This is my favorite of today.
Jason Turner and his two-year-old son Maty Turner were watching the parade in downtown Torrington,CT. The boy had no interest in the parade, he kept turning around and looking at all the toys in the closed toy store behind.

It's two days away from June 1. In China, June 1 is a holiday for all the kids, we call it Children's Day. I remember when I was a kid, Dad always gave me ¥5 to buy toys and I always get a different military ship or jet.

well,
Happy Children's Day!
even if you are not a child any more

another memorial assignment

I got another memorial assignment to shoot in state capitol in Hartford.
This memorial is about the seven Connecticut soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past year.

Ling Noonan(center), her son got killed by another soldier in the dorm in Iraq last October.

pre-memorial day

I just figured out my schedule of the rest of the week and next week. I will have to work on Memorial Day which means I will probably get paid extra.

Today, the third day of internship. I had three assignments, the last two are Waterbury Police Dept& Fire memorial ceremony and Veterans memorial dinner. And I will have another bigger memorial event in Hartford tomorrow afternoon.

Here are a few photos from the police memorials, it's a standalone photo so only the last one will run on the paper.

NVL track&field championship

This is the second day of my summer internship in Waterbury, CT.
I got three assignments, the third one is a high school track and field game which was my favorite.

it took me a couple of minutes to get used to the strange environment. Because I am so used to the New Mexico sunlight, blue sky, it is cloudy here. My friend Bob told me it has been rainy for the past three weeks.







so far, the only two things I don't like here: the highway is really really confusing; there is the a dress code for working at the newspaper

next adventure

I am leaving for my summer photo/multimedia internship with the Republican-American, a newspaper in Waterbury, CT next Thursday.
2,100 miles of driving from Albuquerque, I am still thinking about to make it two days or three.

wish me good luck!

exhib on cinco de mayo

Finally set the date up for the exhibition of the Juarez project
It will be on May 5, cinco de mayo in the Hydra Gallery in Albuquerque.

a few photos from Anapra, Juárez, México.

a few photos from Anapra, Juárez, México.