Hakka Village, Sha Tin, 2010, from Asleep At Sea, © Jane Tam, currently featured in Fraction Magazine, Issue 15

So it’s been quite a long time since my last update and it was mainly due to the lack of acknowledgment for writing on this blog. The loss in interest basically led to my blog getting hacked yesterday but all is fixed. Despite the tumbleweed atmosphere here, I have to update on some news.

Two years ago I graduated from Syracuse University and was honored to be asked to be part of Nymphoto, a women’s photo collective in New York City. (If you have not noticed from the Nymphoto blog, the members and I have decided to take a break and focus on our own individual endeavors.) The members of the collective were overwhelmingly supportive of my work and I jumped for the opportunity to have the sense of community I was leaving in Syracuse. The Nymphoto Blog was one of our first big tasks since it offered a blogpost every single day, whether it was an exhibition announcement or an interview. Having this involvement, I had the opportunity to interview and showcase female photographers I admired such as Kanako Sasaki, Lisa Robinson, Garie Waltzer, Pixy Liao, Celine Clanet, and lots more. Since we had such a great library, Nymphoto decided to tackle more challenges, with two back-to-back exhibitions as Sasha Wolf Gallery and a self-publish volume of the Conversations series. I can’t express how unbelievably amazing all these opportunities are to a then-23-yr old.

Thank you Nina, Maria, Rona, Candace, Melanie, all our families and extended Nymphoto friends. Being a member of Nymphoto have brought me a noticeably bigger audience, have given me exhibition opportunities, and a great group of friends. It’s been a great run and I think it’s about time we find time for ourselves.