My Photojournalism Work

[Pictorials] - Millennium Park & The Windy City

[The Bean]

[The Bean]

[The Bean with Sky Scrapers]

[Greek Towers at Millennium Park - Chicago]

[Sky Rises along the Chicago River]

[Statue based on the painting of American Gothic]

[Donald Trump's International Hotel & Tower]

Pictorial pictures are my most favorite types of photo journalistic work. Living in Chicago, I am inspired to capture the essence and beauty of the city. Although Chicago undergoes unexpected weather changes, it is not always easy to capture Chicago in it's beauty. However with the appropriate lighting and weather, the outcome of the images in of Chicago is great.

[Portraits]

Environmental portraits are the other types of pictures that I enjoy taking. It allows me to capture the personality of the person through use of their surroundings. Again since I am from Chicago, most of the environmental portraits are taken in Chicago.

Chicago inspired musician, Julian J. Choi, depicts in his music the realities of growing up as an Asian-American deep within urban Chicago. His music transcends a message of love, social justice, and peace. Choi's sense of musical style is reminiscent of a feel good vocalist that encompasses originality of classical music. Light, yet passionate, he delivers his message with melodic and rhythmic changes throughout his work that spans many genres in the musical world.
Christie Chen, a 22-year-old New Yorker from New York City moved to the Windy City at the age of 12-years-old. For the past ten years, she lives in Chicago's infamous Chinatown with her family. Chinatown is filled with diversity, style, and culture, which inspires her as well as the urban setting of the city in her love for music and dance. Her style is encompassed in her passion for shoes. Chen owns a bountiful of shoes, Nike's Dunks being one of her favorites.

With her blue Mini Cooper S, she zooms throughout the city in seek of embracing different adventures. She finds that she is learning somethings new each day in the city of Chicago.

Chen's style consists of an edgy, urban personal linked with her cultural identity.