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Hi everyone!

Thank you for following me on BLOGSPOT- however I have found a new home on my personal website.

Please follow this link: http://www.cynthiachung.com/blog to see new updates on my photographic adventures!

Thank you so much!

Love,
Cynthia

The Chang Family Portraits!

Had the pleasure to photograph the Chang's last weekend. It was great fun!! I especially loved getting the chance to play with Joshua all morning! (he IS my favorite nephew of course...) We started the morning at the Chang's place, then mulled over to the park, played and then went over to get some lunch at a local diner. It was a ton of fun, Joshua was the happiest kid in the park. We played a lot of "Catch Mes" and "Red, Yellow, Green, Brown!!"

Artists for Peace and Justice Dinner at Millesime

Lately it seems that everyone's been getting into doing 'good'. What's up with all these celebrities and mongrels dedicating their time and money into philanthropic work? Well, whatever the reason is, it's great! I hope it continues! I was lucky to be able to photograph the "Artists for Peace and Justice’s ‘Let’s Build a School for Haiti’ fundraising Dinner" at Salon Millesime (inside the Carlton Hotel) last Friday night. It was a great evening, there were a lot of celebrities there, such as Russell Crowe, Susan Sarandon, Gerald Butler, Trudie Styler, Paul Haggis and Philip Seymour Hoffman and many others. They were all fundraising for the development in Haiti.








From what I've heard, they raised over $700,000.00 from the benefit. Courtney Love bid $17,000 for tea with Adrian Brody...

Advocating for a Better Future

Last week I had the pleasure to photograph at an event, hosted by The Cushman Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney called, "The Path from Disaster to Development: Haiti". This event had three speakers, Curtis R. Welling (The CEO of AmeriCares), Ruth W. Messinger (The President of the American Jewish World Service) and Dr. Robert Gore (Emergency Physician and Project Co-Leader of Emedex International).



These three individuals spoke on the development of Haiti, prior to and after the earthquake disaster. Their projects focus on helping Haiti maintain a sustainable plan that will help alleviate the issues and work towards a better future for the country.


Curtis Welling (above right) telling us that billions of dollars go towards the "Relief" of the earthquake, but no one really knows where all that money really goes. If you step into Haiti now and look at it now, it doesn't look any different than it was right after the earthquake that hit in January. 10 months later, and nothing has changed.


Ruth Messinger (above) spoke about her organization. One goal they are working on is currently giving all the women in Haiti flashlights. This will reduce the risks of sexual crimes in Haiti and provide safety. Ruth's organization stresses the promotion of sustainable relief. Relief that will bring about a better future for the Haitian community and also build their economy and focus on parts that will actually make an impact.


Dr. Robert Gore (above), a project leader at Emedex International, tells of how their organization works to train and teach doctors all over Haiti in order to ensure a better future in medics for the country. The lack of doctors in Haiti and the immense need for care is outbalanced, and if they continue to train more and more, the community will be able to help themselves.

There is still much to be done in this developing country. The natural disaster only created a more complicated work space, but hopefully these organizations will create an easier future for Haiti. Hope for the best.

A Portrait of Jeffrey Steingarten

Was given a great opportunity to photograph Jeffrey Steingarten a few weeks back inside the restaurant PDT. Few of you food-crazed people would recognize him as being a guest judge on Iron Chef and also the column food critic for Vogue Magazine. (personally I had NO idea who he was until I did some wikipedia-ing...haha) Anyway, New York Magazine did a little interview with him, asking him about his diet. Article located here. Personally, I would have picked this image, I feel like it better encapsulates his jaded, dark, passive nature better (image above)

He yelled at me for calling his glass a "cup". Ha ha

Mexico!

Things have been insane! I just got back from Mexico 2 weeks ago and boy did I have an amazing time. I was in Tijuana, Mexico and I took over 30 gigs of imagery (As usual to every time I go to travel...) and the same part was that I actually LOST one of my 8gig memory cards. I was pretty upset- because MOST of the images I took of the village was on that card. It seemed to be a lost hope.. so I tried to block it out of my memory.

A few days ago I got a call from Mexico, someone had found my card! (I write my name and number on every one of my cards) So they asked me for my address and will be mailing it back to me! Hurray! I haven't received it yet but just the thought was so soothing. Here are some pictures that I salvaged from the other cards I DIDNT lose, from Mexico:

Sunflowers and Sun

Last week I did a photo shoot with one of my friends, Sook, who is a Wedding/Events Coordinator! She's working on her website as of right now, but if anyone is in need of any coordination- she's one to call! (you can ask me for her info) Anyway, we went on a wild hunt for a Sunflower and took some images at the park. It was a lot of fun and we had a really AWESOME lunch afterwards. Here are some beautiful images we got:




And YES, it feels great to be a kid again...