Pedestrian at downtown, Vancouver

For years I was using a bad French phrase as my domain address because I thought it was different(was studying French at the time, which I failed miserably). But then I moved to Canada and had a chance to travel to Europe this domain printed on my business card started to taken toll on me slowly as I encounter more and more French. I did thought about having a domain name change few month after I register the site but because the process was quite complicated so I decide to put on hold....without even realizing that I end up having this monster which was even more difficult to rebuild.

Anyway, Starting from today I will be slowly but painfully migrating contents from the current site to the new one. The web address for the new site will be http://www.benhuangphotos.com. Hopefully the new site will be up and running in the complete form by the end of this week. In the meantime when you visit this site in the near future you will also be redirected automatically to that of new one.

Cafe de la Poste, Perpignan, France

The job in Victoria was not so much of the exciting ones. It's a typical job if you involved in school photography - Just go there and taking picture of people's faces. Though off the job I did spend sometime wondering around town trying to get the sense of the city. I have to say having spend two years living in Vancouver, Victoria is a eye re-freshener for me. The first thing you noticed about Victoria is that older buildings, regardless of residential, commercial or historical buildings are well maintained by the locals - something you can find less in Vancouver these days. Then as you get in contact with locals you started to notice a mellow less self centered attitude across them. So in the end not a most exciting trip ever but did have a moment of pleasure here and there.

As for the opening of the show at Exposure Gallery, since I already mentioned on the earlier post so I won't elaborate details here. But prior to the show I invited some of my friends and co-workers for the opening and in the end only one showed up - Yes, ONE - and I missed her because after stayed in the gallery for about an hour I just have to go partly a little upset on people's lack of commitment but also the fact that there's way too many people in the gallery and I just need to get some fresh air outside after few drinks.

Anyway, days later I was on the plane to Toronto for Magnum workshop. I have to say up to the first day of the workshop I was quite nervous about this event because first I wasn't sure my tuition payment got through or not since I paid on the last minute. Then there's uncertainty of what would people think of my work especially from my group instructor Larry Towell, who is among one of my most respected photographer from Magnum. But after the first day of the workshop all doubts were out - I received a positive feedback from people in the workshop on the project I did on the theme parks, including Larry himself. The following four days after the first day of the workshop was just intensive shooting and critic session which I produced some of best images in months and was fortunate enough to be nominated for the Scotia Bank Prize - The award designed for outstanding student from the workshop.

By the way, this workshop also gave me a chance to spark a new idea for the next project I want to work on for sometime. I'll try to post them on the website when it is ready.

One more thing before I go, photographs I produced during the workshop will be part of group exhibition at CONTACT gallery in Toronto until Jun 10th or longer. So if you're in the area and an interested in photography pleas do go and check it out.

 

Bus Stop at Sixth Street, Burnaby, Canada