DANA MARIKO CHANG

Dana Mariko Chang is a photographer native to Northern California. She earned her BFA in Photography with a concentration in Sustainability & Social Practices from Maryland Institute College of Art. In addition to working on freelance projects, she works as a producer for a food photography studio in Oakland. 

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Michiko Kon (今 道子)

Mackerel & Pillow, 1979

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Kawaguchiko by Asako Narahashi.

From the series half awake and half asleep in the water, 2003. Seen on the Guardian's gallery 70 years of Japanese female photographers – in pictures.

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San Francisco Chronicle's annual recipe tab, In The Kitchen, spotlights the Bay Area's Farmers markets along with 40 recipes per season that feature the regions bounty. I was commissioned to photograph at various farmers markets, produce still lives, and chef profile portraits. I co-ordinated with chefs to arrange the portrait shoot schedules and was responsible for shooting and retouching photos.  Below are a few of my favorite images out of the 15 total that were selected for the piece.

(via Dana Mariko Chang on Behance)

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I am grateful for the live streaming opportunity I had with Adobe Live last month. During my Adobe Live stream, I walked viewers through my editing and printing process for film scans in Photoshop from start to finish.

  Day One was dedicated to editing high res film scans. I demonstrated various editing techniques I have used over the years including levels, smart filters, camera raw, and clone stamping.

  Day Two segued into the printing process. During this stream we printed on a 17" roll of Moab Matte Lasal paper and walked through the basics of printing, as well as trouble shooting common tricky hurdles with matte paper.

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Luca: Modern Day James Dean

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(via Dorothea Lange | OMCA Japanese Owned Grocery Store, Oakland)

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Bedroom Study Light Tests

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Is it kind of evil to treat [food] as an artistic medium? It effectively feels like standing on top of a pedestal and saying, “Ha ha ha, I have access to so much that I can afford to turn these bananas into a Christmas tree full of banana dolphins.” It’s deeply privileged, and it’s something that I’ve run into over and over again.

Chef and food artist Jen Monroe on giving people something to chew on – The Creative Independent

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Tokyo! (2008)

Shelter in Place in California has me feeling like the hikikomori fellow in Bong Joon Ho’s short film, Shaking Tokyo. Available to stream on Amazon Prime if anyone is in need of content to stream during their time indoors. 

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I love that. That's the part of me that feels the most feminine...it's when I can tap into how really...disgusting it gets. In the best way. I love it.

Hayley Williams

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Omori Katsumi, Urayasu-shi, Chiba, 2011, Everything happens for the first time

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Just picked up a copy of Ravens & Red Lipstick while I was at SFMOMA the other day. Combing through the pages now and making notes of all of the images that resonate with me. 

(via Ravens & Red Lipstick - High Fashion Living)

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Tanuma Takeyoshi, Dressed up to go shopping, 1955.

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(via Quirky Juxtapositions Capture Imperfect Human Moments in Photographs by Shin Noguchi | Colossal)

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When Shakira Franklin drives from West Baltimore to her job near the city’s Inner Harbor, she can feel the summer heat ease up like a fist loosening its grip.

“I can actually feel me riding out of the heat. When I get to a certain place when I’m on my way, I’ll turn off my air and I’ll roll my windows down,” says Franklin. “It just seems like the sun is beaming down on this neighborhood.”

Franklin isn’t imagining that. Her neighborhood, Franklin Square, is hotter than about two-thirds of the other neighborhoods in Baltimore — about 6 degrees hotter than the city’s coolest neighborhood. It’s also in one of the city’s poorest communities, with more than one-third of residents living in poverty.

Across Baltimore, the hottest areas tend to be the poorest and that pattern is not unusual. In dozens of major U.S. cities, low-income neighborhoods are more likely to be hotter than their wealthier counterparts, according to a joint investigation by NPR and the University of Maryland’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism.

Those exposed to that extra heat are often a city’s most vulnerable: the poorest and, our data show, disproportionately people of color. And living day after day in an environment that’s literally hotter isn’t just uncomfortable, it can have dire and sometimes deadly health consequences — a fact we found reflected in Baltimore’s soaring rates of emergency calls when the heat index spiked to dangerous levels.

As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most

Photos: Ian Morton for NPR and Meg Anderson/NPR Graphic: Sean McMinn/NPR

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(via のチー坊: Chichiyasu’s recto-verso baby-faced logo | BEACH)

I’m so in love with Chichiyasu’s logo design.