📸 Photo Essays

Photography essays that are sometimes accompanied by words. 🔏 For now, it's mostly for paid subscribers only.

Creative Sparks essay, week 6: Lush

Bursting with green and an added bonus of a visit to the SF Botanical gardens

06 Mar 2023

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Creative Sparks essay, week 4: Architectural detail

A look at San Francisco's cornices

20 Feb 2023

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Creative Sparks essay, week 3: Cozy

That cozy feeling is not a singular item, it’s a combination of physical objects and their surroundings, all working together to make you feel safe and secure. I’m drawn to cozy spaces and I love to create them. If I had the space, there would be a reading

12 Feb 2023

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📸✍🏼 Challenge: Shoot a dreary Midwestern landscape in B&W

Making myself be creative

14 Dec 2022

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📸✍🏼Essay: Mooncakes

The making of 14 mooncakes: A dollop of salted duck egg yolk, cushioned and enveloped by an ube paste

21 Sep 2022

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Exploring the tangents that life creates: essays and story links in culture, identity, solopreneurship, social activism, and more.

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Exploring the tangents that life creates: essays and story links in culture, identity, solopreneurship, social activism, and more. This newsletter is the creative outlet of writer & photographer Jenn Chen.