I’m a Brooklyn-based artist and writer.

I come to photography after decades as an editor and writer. My writing—on identity, culture, and the arts—has appeared in three editions of Vogue (U.S., Philippines, and Singapore), The New York Times, Newsweek, W, The Village Voice, and other publications. I’m a former editor in chief of the pioneering Asian American magazine A., former executive editor of Vibe, and a former editorial director of POZ and Lambda Legal. My interview subjects have spanned the worlds of the arts, culture, business, and politics, including singer-songwriters Alicia Keys and Erykah Badu, model Naomi Campbell, human rights icon Winnie Mandela, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, and many others.

As a photographer, I specialize in portraiture, and am particularly interested in Asian and Pacific Islander men, including trans men, and non-binary people and gender-fluid people who present as male. My photography has appeared on the Fall 2024 cover of Yes!, a social justice magazine based in Seattle, as well as several inside spreads.

In addition to penning a few screenplays, I am developing, as lyricist and arranger, a queer, pop-infused, English-language update of Bizet’s opera Carmen. Set in 1970s New York City, my Carmen is a young, male street hustler, Don José a rookie cop, and Escamillo a brash city council candidate in the spirit of Harvey Milk.

In my off-time, I am at the beach, roaming streets in New York or various locations in France, or tumbling down pop-culture rabbit holes on YouTube, Mubi, or the Criterion Channel. LA-born, NJ-bred, Columbia grad.