For 2017, my New Year's resolution was to "live a life worth photographing." I came up with it as a spinoff to the line from "
You Should Date An Illiterate Girl" (a problematic essay, I know) that goes: "You will accept nothing less than passion, and perfection, and a life worthy of being storied." I wanted to capture every moment this year that mattered to me, and less than a week into the new year I realized how impossible that was. I felt like I shattered the perfect candidness each time I took out my phone or camera and asked Alice if she could take a picture of me, and when I came back from Taiwan in January and picked up my film scans from Photolab, I felt like I couldn't post a photo diary here of that trip because I didn't get the story I wanted to tell just right.
It took me until now to decide that maybe that's okay.
Here are some of my favorite shots from the first quarter of the year, mostly film photos from January to March. Pictured are Kaohsiung, Shifen, Jiufen, Taipei, San Francisco, Tempe, Tokyo, and Kyoto; not pictured are Hualien, Berkeley, Oakland, Phoenix, and Osaka. Coming soon: photos from Europe this summer. It's been a wild and colorful year, and I think I'm finally ready to share more of it here.
Stay tuned.
xoxo, vivian
Film photos shot on Fujifilm Superia 400, Kodak Gold 200, and Kodak Portra 400; others on iPhone 5s
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