I am blessed with some very talented friends, who are a continuous source of inspiration and support. Thank you.

• Ilir Bajraktari – a leading photojournalist based out of New York City and my first photography teacher
• George Hsia – a documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Taiwan, currently living in Asia. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a Mechanical Engineering degree he worked 12 years in Silicon Valley and quit in 2007 to pursue humanitarian photography
• David Chang – artist and calligrapher exploring the significance and meaning of words and texts as embodied through physical gestures
• Anna Greenberg – painter and yoga teacher extraordinaire
• Carlos Giffoni – sound artist based in Los Angeles by way of Venezuela, Miami, and New York