Tiffany Luong Photography

05/10/2023

WE DID IT! Excited to share the fruit that has come from the . Our exhibition will be open to the public on Saturday May 13th and Sunday May 14th, from 12-6pm .

So much gratitude to my family who adventured with me from Angel Island (when we almost missed the boat) to Hong Kong to China (where we proved ourselves to the airport police after 3hrs) and back. Proud to have had you all by my side:

Models:
Hair/Makeup:
Photo Assistants: Evan Chen, Elizabeth Ng
Translators:
Mentor: ! who gets credit for helping me envision this nebulous project as a historical reimagining
Magicians: + , our captains and vision-keepers, and the entire teams of +
Photographer/Creative Director/Researcher

Thank you for the editorial feature and the wonderful writeup, Noa Lin!

The backstory:
In 2022, I was among 20 image makers awarded with the inaugural .

This Fellowship invests in the next generation of image-makers of color and the expansion of a more representative creative industry. Each Fellow created a photo-centric project focused on the urgent, untold stories of our communities, and mine will be included in an upcoming show entitled , supported by
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10/25/2022

🌲🌲 Mini sessions at Chamberlain Tree Farm in Claremont 🌲🌲
Now booking! November 5, 3:30-5:30pm
tiffanyluong.com/mini-sessions

Tiffany is a commercial lifestyle and editorial photographer specializing in kids, brand narratives, documentary family photography, visual ethnographies, personal branding and small business stories, based in Pasadena and greater Los Angeles.

09/17/2022

Humbled and grateful and shocked to announce that I’m a Google Image Equity Fellow in a cohort of 20 selected and challenged to tell a story uplifting communities of color with care and nuance. I’m still reeling from this honor and incredible responsibility, and supercharged by wanting to do the Chinese-American community proud.

Thank you so much to , & for making this a possibility.

Thank you also to and for first round edits and the that gave me the foundation to write grant applications, and of course to the One whose timing is always perfect.

10/15/2021

MY FIRST BILLBOARD! Such a joy to have photographed for ’s campaign celebrating Canadian creators. This image is splashed on billboards and in transit stations.

First slide: for the image of the billboard in its splendor!
Second slide: original image by me

And of course, thank you to the team for believing in me!!
Agency
Producer Narine Atinian
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Assistant
Support

07/14/2021

A couple of sneaks from my current personal project, Handmade Heritage, intended to look at cultural inheritance through the lens of preserving old world traditions.

Making gluten free dumpling skins with two squirmy children is not for the faint of heart. Thank you for taking the lead on that!

07/14/2021

Cars (literally) transport us, but they also represent the freedom of the open road and the mobility to go about life.

Current mood: reminiscing about that feeling of being in so much space and beauty!

Producer:
Model: .sforza
Mood:

04/16/2021

Passport photo attempts #1-55.

04/14/2021

For 5 years, my husband and sister were training for half marathons left and right and were trying to get me to run with them - "c'mon, isn't this on your bucket list?" Naw, nope. I tried to figure out the equivalent to intense training and a badge of honor in the photographic world, and having a photograph be exhibited in a museum seemed like a lofty faraway goal to me! Fast forward to this Friday, where 2 of my photos of my silly kid will be in an international group exhibition PICTURE (im)PERFECT, with 46 other extremely talented documentary family photographers that I am both humbled and nervous to be around. Thank you to for the nomination to get my work into this show and accompanying book (swipe to see the cover - both our kids are on it!).

More info (and a link to buy the book, which will help the show travel so that others can feel and know that their families too are real + (im)perfect) at https://linktr.ee/Picture_im_perfect

From the press release, "This exhibition features a wide array of voices within the documentary family community around the world. Documentary family photographers use raw, unposed, undirected, family moments to create visual narratives that elevate family routines to an artistic expression. They celebrate the beautiful complexities of being part of a family to create emotive, relatable, evocative, and powerful visual legacies."

Forever grateful to for spearheading this entire effort and filling your living room with all of our prints framed with help from and , for your careful and laborious curation and for book design!

03/16/2021

Hi friends! I'm building a pool of people who would like to potentially be in a photo session some day for advertising, magazines or stock imagery. Link is below - feel free to share!
https://form.jotform.com/Luong_Tiffany/casting

02/21/2021

(2/2, cont’d) When I look back at these iPhone snaps, I remember all the weird stares I got standing in line outside the lactation pod (what is that? a lactation room? well, where's her baby? oh, wait – ohh) and questions from TSA agents (why do you have all this milk if there's no baby with you? me: I had to pump it, sir). I will admit that I felt proud that I prepared enough to take care of my baby AND do my job, although I was terrible at taking care of my body (I wanted to prove myself with this new client and didn't tell them I would need pump breaks.)

This is not an ad, but I am also super grateful to - the geniuses behind the lactation pods and the app to help you find them in airports & everywhere, and for making a wearable hands-free pump. I wised up after that job and would pump daily on my commute home, run into the house, and pour fresh milk into bags for the next day's feedings. My breastfeeding journey is coming near a close with my daughter who is now 27 months and down to 1 morning feed (pictured in this post at 2mo!), but I 100% know I could not have been away from baby without these companies that exist to support working mamas.

Last images are from a Covid-era photo trip (Sept 2020) when my daughter was almost 2yo, so I pumped and poured mainly to prevent engorgement.

I know it’s kind of a strange story to share during these strange times (esp when I have been terrible with updating this IG corner of the internet with new work), but it was on my heart and felt maybe a mama out there needed to hear this about available resources or have her work struggles recognized while she juggles it all. Thanks for reading!

02/21/2021

(2/2, cont’d) When I look back at these iPhone snaps, I remember all the weird stares I got standing in line outside the lactation pod (what is that? a lactation room? well, where's her baby? oh, wait – ohh) and questions from TSA agents (why do you have all this milk if there's no baby with you? me: I had to pump it, sir). I will admit that I felt proud that I prepared enough to take care of my baby AND do my job, although I was terrible at taking care of my body (I wanted to prove myself with this new client and didn't tell them I would need pump breaks.)

This is not an ad, but I am also super grateful to - the geniuses behind the lactation pods and the app to help you find them in airports & everywhere, and for making a wearable hands-free pump. I wised up after that job and would pump daily on my commute home, run into the house, and pour fresh milk into bags for the next day's feedings. My breastfeeding journey is coming near a close with my daughter who is now 27 months and down to 1 morning feed (pictured in this post at 2mo!), but I 100% know I could not have been away from baby without these companies that exist to support working mamas.

Last images are from a Covid-era photo trip (Sept 2020) when my daughter was almost 2yo, so I pumped and poured mainly to prevent engorgement.

I know it’s kind of a strange story to share during these strange times (esp when I have been terrible with updating this IG corner of the internet with new work), but it was on my heart and felt maybe a mama out there needed to hear this about available resources or have her work struggles recognized while she juggles it all. Thanks for reading!

02/21/2021

(1/2) Can't you just pump it all out at one time so that you can go? Wouldn't you tell Allen to go if he had been given the same opportunity?" I had just told my (male) cousin that I got an inquiry asking me to photograph 10 subjects all across the US, and that I was thinking about turning it down because my baby was 2 months old. *Btw, this is a pre-pandemic story from 2019.

In case you have never been a nursing mother - you can pump ahead of time to create a stash but no, you can't pre-pump the same way you can't hold all your p*e in and p*e it all out at once. Fortunately the agency (that focuses on parenting and kid brands) was understanding and split the assignment so that I would only do half to minimize my time away from home.

This could have been a better nuanced photo project on the realities of pumping during business travel, had I put intention into photographing the details and the big picture the way I always do for my clients. I forgot that my own milestones and struggles were worth the attention and megapixels my "big camera" gives its subjects. If I could do it all again, I would have photographed all my pump pieces lined up to dry on hotel towels; the 4am alarms I set to pump; milk bags laid horizontally to freeze them as compactly as possible to bring home; screenshots of the airport maps to figure out whether to pump on the plane or if there'd be enough time during the layover; the ribs I bruised from body slamming my luggage to close it in the security line (I opened it for TSA to test the liquid) because I dented my rib cage against the bricks of frozen milk I was carting back home; screenshots of all the texts I sent my friend asking for advice about engorgement. (By the way, if you've gotten this far and ever find yourself in this predicament – run COLD water on yourself, not HOT. (Cont’d, next post.)