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The Quiet Photograph by Tommy Lei

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Photos and prose. Exploring the peace and grounding in the everyday and how it directly influences my visual art practice.

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sunday stillness: gabrielino trail, altadena

Walking up the Gabrielino Trail is a gentle introduction to the magical hold that the San Gabriel Valley foothills has over us here in Altadena and Pasadena.

There are so many hidden valleys, vistas, and enclaves in plain sight, waiting to...

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a quiet offering no. 1: a seat at the table

A Seat at the Table, 2017. Sahara Desert, Morocco.

A Seat at the Table

nothing here

asks to be noticed

and yet

I felt it

before I understood it

a quiet

that wasn’t empty

but waiting

A weekly, quiet offering from the studio.

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the pond that waited

Circle of Six (2023). From the A Thousand Koi series. This image captures a moment of stillness in motion, a quiet convergence of koi in a pond. As I framed this photograph, I thought about the cycles of life, the passage of time, and the s...

2 months ago
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photographing the quiet and the unseen

Emergence (2023) From the series Being Koi: Poetry of Movement . A lone koi wades with determination in uncertain waters.

Slowing down is central to my photographs. Not as an aesthetic—but as a way of seeing.

Stillness—the kind I search f...

2 months ago
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why I am returning to poetry and why now

Threshold (2024) An interior moment. Captured on my Leica Q2 camera.

Not because I stopped loving it—but because life, work, and the gravity of the digital world slowly pulled me elsewhere. Photography became my primary language. Images ca...

3 months ago

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