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I am slowly uploading all of my work onto deviantART after a long hiatus. Please read my latest journal.

I am a 16-year-old experimental photographer based around Toronto, Canada with big dreams and high hopes.


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I'm home.

Sun Jul 5, 2009, 10:59 AM
I'm home, in more ways than one. I am finally back to my birth place of Hong Kong for the first time in 6 years, and am also back to my first art website of deviantART for the first time in over a year.

Let me start off with a brief history of who I am, where I'm from, what I've been doing for the past year, and why I'm back.

I was born in Hong Kong during 1992, under the name Cheuk Yin To. I moved to Singapore when I was 3 years old, after which my sister was born. I briefly moved back to Hong Kong at the age of 5, and later immigrated into Canada. Because I arrived at an age old enough to speak, I was able to choose for myself my own English name. I chose 'Edward' because it was the name of my favourite character from my favourite television cartoon of the time, 'Thomas the Tank Engine'. I lived with my aunt for a year until we were able to find a house near Toronto.

I first found an interest in photography late 2007, when I began taking a photography class in school. I completed a culminating project for the class on the subject of homosexuality, consisting of a dozen or so black-and-white film photographs. I eventually found myself posting some of these online to deviantART where they quickly garnered attention, most notably that of [link] .

In mid-2008, I was able to save up enough money from lunch to get myself a digital SLR. I originally wanted to play with film, but decided against it due to the additional costs of chemicals and equipment. During the summer I travelled to England to visit my cousin, and when I came back, there were simply too many photos to upload one-by-one on deviantART. I looked for an alternative, and discovered Flickr.

From this point on, I deleted all but a few of my old works from deviantART, and never came back. I moved onto Flickr [link] setup a Facebook page [link] and made my own website [link] However, I missed those days I remembered from deviantART, in which I received much more appreciative feedback from the community than all other places combined. I realized that good networking is what I really need to get somewhere in this field, and so in the summer of 2009 I decided to painstakingly upload everything one at a time back onto deviantART. I have bought myself a new subscription, and hope I am not wasting my money or time.

It is now 2:59 AM in Hong Kong, my uncle's laptop batteries are almost dead, as well as my own. During these next few weeks months I will attempt to upload everything I have done for the past year. A year's worth of work for me is not as much as people would normally expect though, as I strongly believe in quality over quantity.

I am constantly learning new things and am always updating my portfolio. My first few batches of uploads are old works and they will reflect that. Please bear with me.

Goodnight,
Edward

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~PostITmonster Sep 27, 2009, 5:03:09 PM
i love your gallery
ah mazing
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~cheesecakepet Jul 27, 2009, 8:39:30 AM
You have been featured here [link] :peace:

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*MoonGobbler Jul 12, 2009, 6:02:54 AM
Thanks for the fav :D

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Explore my gallery! [link]
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*Jenipho Jul 6, 2009, 7:25:31 AM
Thankyou! :heart:

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"i don't do fashion, i am fashion."
Coco Chanel
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=Poppet-Pictures Feb 28, 2009, 6:04:39 AM
Thank you so much for the watch!
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