Mimi Lee's Posts
My Passion for Photos or Photos as Historical Documents
"How many?!" exclaimed the person posing for one of my shots. "In the last eight years, oh, about two hundred and thirty thousand digital pictures - give or take a few hundred." After a barrage of the usual questions, "How in the world....Where do you....What camera....to the final question, "Why?"
When we first immigrated to the U.S., we lived with my uncles. Sai Kow Fu or "younger uncle" in Cantonese, dappled in photography, and oftentimes, we kids were his models. I liked posing and discovered that I loved pictures! To me, they represented a captured moment in time, to be experienced over and over and over again.
My cat and her kids -- I have about 10,000 pictures of all the joy she'd brought into our lives for 20 years.
Even before I started working for Kodak, I was already taking 10-20 rolls of film pictures per month, accumulating boxes of film negatives, and shelves of photo albums. I joined six employee networks, and the first photos I took were at the annual dinner meeting of the Women's Forum of Kodak Employees (WFKE). That year, it was hosted by Ann Fisher. I remembered getting the invite to the dinner, and one line on the invitation blew my mind - I've never attended a dinner meeting at a home with "Valet parking for the first 70 cars." You bet I took pictures!
Adding a touch of diversity, the Chinese lion dance troupe (from the Rochester Shaolin Training Academy) kicked off the 2003 Rochester Heart Walk at the Blue Cross Arena at the Rochester War Memorial.
From then on, I became a photographer for many employee network events, and later invited to photograph some company sponsored and community events. It is through my photography and community advocacy that I had the opportunity to curate a photo exhibit, produce a documentary, conduct oral history interviews, and contribute to the Library of Congress through the New York State Documentary Heritage Project. I believe that volunteerism and working on community projects expand and stretch our capabilities beyond the confines of our perceived world, where each individual can truly make a difference.
Photograher: Anthony J. Zollo
Kodak Photo Support Team at the Red Cross Fire & Ice Benefit on 9/13/2008: Doreen Granville, Jeff Palma, and me.
Phat Dao demonstrating one of the new Kodak Easyshare All-in-One printers.
So, this is the short saga of how my passion for photos became a mission to document our historical heritage. In future blogs, I hope to share more of these pictures. In the meantime - smile, because I may be coming by to snap your picture to add to the collection!
When we first immigrated to the U.S., we lived with my uncles. Sai Kow Fu or "younger uncle" in Cantonese, dappled in photography, and oftentimes, we kids were his models. I liked posing and discovered that I loved pictures! To me, they represented a captured moment in time, to be experienced over and over and over again.
My cat and her kids -- I have about 10,000 pictures of all the joy she'd brought into our lives for 20 years.
Even before I started working for Kodak, I was already taking 10-20 rolls of film pictures per month, accumulating boxes of film negatives, and shelves of photo albums. I joined six employee networks, and the first photos I took were at the annual dinner meeting of the Women's Forum of Kodak Employees (WFKE). That year, it was hosted by Ann Fisher. I remembered getting the invite to the dinner, and one line on the invitation blew my mind - I've never attended a dinner meeting at a home with "Valet parking for the first 70 cars." You bet I took pictures!
Adding a touch of diversity, the Chinese lion dance troupe (from the Rochester Shaolin Training Academy) kicked off the 2003 Rochester Heart Walk at the Blue Cross Arena at the Rochester War Memorial.
From then on, I became a photographer for many employee network events, and later invited to photograph some company sponsored and community events. It is through my photography and community advocacy that I had the opportunity to curate a photo exhibit, produce a documentary, conduct oral history interviews, and contribute to the Library of Congress through the New York State Documentary Heritage Project. I believe that volunteerism and working on community projects expand and stretch our capabilities beyond the confines of our perceived world, where each individual can truly make a difference.
Photograher: Anthony J. Zollo
Kodak Photo Support Team at the Red Cross Fire & Ice Benefit on 9/13/2008: Doreen Granville, Jeff Palma, and me.
Phat Dao demonstrating one of the new Kodak Easyshare All-in-One printers.
So, this is the short saga of how my passion for photos became a mission to document our historical heritage. In future blogs, I hope to share more of these pictures. In the meantime - smile, because I may be coming by to snap your picture to add to the collection!