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In 1999 I started to get seriously interested in photography. Naturally
beginning with 35mm color film, the most accessible format, my preference
quickly became black and white and more formal imagery. After purchasing my
first Pentax67 and learning how to do my own prints and negatives, I got to
work learning all about this field.
Since the mid-1980s, I've been a computer programmer. But before that, in
graduate school at Kansas University, my major was Chinese language, history
and philosophy (M.A.). After moving to New York City, I worked at various
jobs, among them an interpreter for an acupuncturist, private detective
(for two days), an editor, and later, for several years as contract
negotiator in China for a trading company. At one point, albeit briefly,
I was fluent enough in Chinese that
in China people often thought I worked for the Liaison Office (the precursor to our embassy).
Eventually, I returned to graduate school at Columbia University (East
Asian Languages and Cultures), to continue studying Chinese History and
Philosophy, mainly Neo-Confucianism. Along the way, I picked up
computer programming, wrote some popular shareware programs, such as Xword,
a widely used file format conversion program which PC Magazine picked as
the best file format converter in 1986. The next year I left school to
become a programmer for real, first for Ashton-Tate (the owner of dBase),
and later on for companies such as Logitech and Chemical (now Chase) Bank,
and AXA.
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Amargosa Hotel, Death Valley, California
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