Author: Richard Huang
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San Francisco Impressions 2023 #3: Farmers’ Markets
Over four days, I came across three San Francisco farmers’ markets. Amid local produce, Easter costumes, and street music, I saw how these markets bring together food, community, and city life.
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A Visit to Sightlines: Photographs from the SFMOMA Collection
SFMOMA’s Sightlines brings together more than two hundred photographs, organizing them not chronologically but around ways of seeing, photographic processes, and themes of belonging, empathy, and innovation.
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San Francisco Impressions 2023 #2: Japantown
A lunchtime visit unexpectedly coincides with the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, where the Peace Pagoda, cultural stalls, stage performances, and imaginatively dressed crowds bring traditional celebration and youth culture together.
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San Francisco Impressions 2023 #1: Chinatown
Revisiting San Francisco’s Chinatown, I look for signs of change after the pandemic and the latest wave of technology—in shop windows, lanterns, graffiti, and shuttered storefronts—before pausing in Washington Square to take in the rhythms of neighborhood life.
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Toronto Fan Expo 2023
After missing the St. Patrick’s Day parade, I happened upon Toronto’s fan convention and watched from outside as cosplayers moved between assumed identities, imagined worlds, and everyday reality.
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The Little Pond I Photographed Over the Years
By running and taking photographs around a five-hundred-metre pond near home, I discovered endless variation in seemingly familiar trees, weather, and light—and the rewards of returning to the same place over time.
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The 2023 Bloor-Yorkville Icefest
An unusually mild winter left the Yorkville ice sculptures melting—and some even collapsing—so the camera turned instead to children, passersby, and the surrounding architecture, capturing a neighbourhood crowded once again after the pandemic.
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Impressions of Spain #14: Lonely City Dwellers
Through photographs of older people, smartphone users, and solitary figures on Spain’s streets, the author considers the loneliness beneath the bustle of city life—and the ways technology, pets, faith, and human connection shape our inner lives.
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Impressions of Spain #13: City of Graffiti
By placing passers-by and urban graffiti in the same frame, I explore the history, expression, and challenges of regulating this marginal art form. Love it or hate it, graffiti has become part of the modern city.
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Impressions of Spain #12: The Great Parade
Two unexpected marches cross my path on the streets of Madrid—one over Agenda 2030, the other led by trade unions. Through my camera, I record the colour, order and commotion of peaceful public expression, while reflecting on what such use of public space means.