A Master Class for Photographers in Chinatown

Cindy Trinh is a photographer, visual journalist, organizer and activist who is passionate about social justice and human rights. Cindy has been published and featured by popular media, including HBO Max, Paper Magazine, Milk Agency, The Hill, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Daily News, .Mic, Hyperallergic, The Culture Trip, and more. They have exhibited at numerous museums, galleries and art spaces, including the Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Chinese in America, New York Arts Center, Canal Street Market, Rush Arts Gallery, Pearl River Mart, and The Knockdown Center. Cindy is the creator of Activist NYC, a documentary photo project about activism and social justice movements in New York City. 

workshop themes:

• Highlighting colors of Chinatown

• Framing and composition

• Capturing movement and candid moments

• Finding your style: documentary, portraits, street 

• Interaction with subjects 

Edward Cheng is a native New Yorker, a freelance computer programmer and a seasoned globetrotting backpacker. Through photography, he works on long term projects documenting Christian Holy Weeks and Easters around the world, Dia de los Muertos in Mexico, and Chinese-American experience in the Lower Manhattan of New York City. Edward is a teaching assistant and a permanent fixture at the International Center of Photography; he regularly assists for darkroom masters Steve Anchell, Brian Young, and Chuck Kelton.

workshop themes:

• Pre-visualization (what you should be looking before you put the camera to your face)

• Photo history of neighborhood documentary -- inside and out of Chinatown

• Post visualization (now that you have a negative/raw file, what is possible, editing, and archiving)

• Community building and ethics in interaction