The Stranger in Her Room, 2008

I was so glad to receive an email from CPW today saying I’ll be included in Photography Now 2009 in June. The juror is Charlotte Cotton, writer of “The Photography as Contemporary Art”. I’m honored to be in the same show with Alex Aristei, Clint Baclawski, Shane Lavalette, Betsey Seder, Lacey Terrell, Stacey Tyrell, and Toshihiro Yashiro(I love his photos, don’t know what he did).

Finally, I didn’t work at a frame shop for nothing. Cheap framing, yeah!!!!!

The opening is June 13th, anyone going to Woodstock? I will.
http://www.cpw.org/exhibitions/2009/photonow_greene/photonow/pages/gallery_pn09_pr.html

So excited. My resting on a bush is on 20×200 today!

It’s definitely my best night in New York so far. 那晚无疑是我到纽约后最棒的一晚了。

over my head, there’s Jen, & then somebody, somebody & then my photos on the wall.

I finally had my photos framed in shadow boxes. Larry at L&O framing did a wonderful job. Although it costed me a fortune, it’s worth it.  Sorry about the picture, too many people that night.
我终于用了SHADOW BOX做框。帮我做框的LARRY活很漂亮。虽然非常贵，但是也值了。照片看不清，人实在太多没法拍。

I know one thing that night. Opening is not for seeing the art but chatting. But I was happy to see my friends & get to know some interesting people.
展览那天人很多。OPENING不是给人看展的，是聊天的。不过那天还是很高兴，看到很多有朋友和有意思的人。

All the photographers in show came except Donald Weber, even including Hosang Park from Korea with his lovely wife Sunny. Moro said Park is the most handsome Korean guy he had ever seen. I agreed. He looks like Korean version of John Lennon. But he doesn’t speak much English, his friend & wife translated for him. Another lovely man is JOHN MANN. I adore his work, they are so cool. He’s a really sweet big guy with a characterized old fashioned black frame glasses. I also saw tall and pretty CARA PHILIP. She was too popular, always surrounded by people, so I didn’t get to talk to her. This is the 2nd time I saw JEN BEKMAN. I met her last time in her gallery while visiting. Moro encouraged me to go inside & say hi to her. I’m glad I did.  I remember about 2 years ago when I first went to see her gallery, it was closed. I was peering thru the window & wished I could have my first show in New York here. & I did! One happy thing is I met NOAH KALINA that night, too. My friend Shannon recognized him. He told me he really liked my photos. It made my day. I’ve been follow his work for a long time. He’s a true experimentalist in lighting. Another new friend I really like is Raul Gutierrez. He’s one of the panalists of HHS. I met him in 20X200 office earlier. He’s a handsome white hair guy. He is very interesting to talk to, has plentiful life experience & knows alot about China.
那天摄影师除了那个拍纪实的Donald Weber没来，其他人都来了。包括在韩国的Hosang Park，携夫人一起飞过来。MORO说PARK是他见过的最帅的韩国人，有点JOHN LENNON的韩国版。不过他不怎么会说英文，一直有个朋友在边上给他翻译。另一个可爱的人是JOHN MANN。我很欣赏他的作品，太COOL了。他本人也很亲切，人块头很大，但是很温顺，带了一副老式的黑框眼镜，可爱的太太。CARA PHILIP很高，很漂亮，我觉得比AMY ELKINS好看，可能她是化妆师出身。不过没有多聊，她果然非常忙，一直被人围着说话。JEN BEKMAN我已经是第二次见了。第一次是去年年底去看画廊时她正好在，后来MORO鼓励我进去跟她说句话。我很高兴当时进去了。我还记得两年前第一次去她的画廊，但是那天关门。我在门外张望时想，如果我在纽约的第一个展览可以办在这里多好啊！现在我实现了这个想法！另外让我最高兴的还是碰到NOAH KALINA，他跟我说他很喜欢我的照片。我从好早以前就一直留意他的照片，虽然不是一路人，但是他非常的先锋。还有一个谈的来的是Raul Gutierrez，他是HHS的评委之一，我在20X200的办公室里见过他一次。是一个张的非常帅的白发中年人，他去过中国18次，对中国非常了解。

The best way to end this night is to go to Chinese restaurant. My Chinese friends went there after the show, I was so jealousy before. But haha, we went there later, too.
展览后聚餐在粥之家，碰到八天他们吃饱出来，总算心理平衡了点。

And last but not least, my favorite piece from the show:

Untitled (Eclipse) by John Mann