Last week, I had the privilege of listening to a former portrait client speak to a roomful of people about her struggle with and triumph over anorexia. She is 21 years old, and I photographed her and her twin brother the year they graduated from high school in Singapore. I had never photographed a grade 12 beauty quite like her before: she was the very embodiment of every feature that girls in the West are indoctrinated to believe is external beauty: very thin, long blond perfectly coiffed hair, immaculately applied makeup, stunning clothes, tall, heels, dazzling smile, etc. At the time, no one knew she was battling anorexia. I recall feeling empathy for her brother, assuming that he had ...

My 19-year-old son said something to me not long ago that stopped me in my tracks. He is not one to be overly sentimental; he lives half a world away from us now, and I don’t think he has told me he loves me since he was 9 (as his mom, I know what that means, and what it doesn’t mean). I can’t get what he said to me out of my mind, because I missed it. And it’s haunting me. He asked me casually the last time I was with him if I remembered the last time I picked him up, carried him in my arms? ‘You know mom, there was a last time. The last and final time you ever picked me up. Do you remember when it was? Think about it. For every parent, there is a last ...

 Ensuring the safe-keeping of precious photo and video files has been helped by the advent of big data servers and 'The Cloud'. The reality of managing storage, and navigating the choices however, can be a struggle. Although cloud storage has become popular, difficulties and limitations of its use still remain. Large file sizes, duplications, upload speeds, ease of access, sharing and editing capabilities are some of the reasons many opt to hold their keepsake files in their hard drives instead. However, the price for the use of cloud storage has lowered substantially, and companies are competing to ease use and struggle, and make cloud services the default storage of your files. ...

As an antithesis to this past week's gruesome photographs, I've curated here a selection of images that jump off the page with joy. Practical considerations had me take a hiatus from this series for a couple of months, and I have decided to re-kindle it here with a conceptual rather than time-dated approach. I hope you enjoy these joyous photographs from image platforms around the world, and that they inspire you to seek and note small evidence of joy in your daily lives during the coming week.Photograph by mwads10 published oin his Instagram account. Photograph by Luccico published on his Instagram account Published in Time Photo was taken on October 26, 2012 where ...