328: Xuan-Hui Ng - Healing Grief Through Nature Photography and the Power of Mentorship

Photography has the ability to heal. It can help us process grief, learn to be better humans, and grow a wonderful relationship with nature. Mentorship with a caring mentor can help us to develop these benefits, and this one of the reasons this week's guest of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen Podcast, Xuan-Hui Ng, has been able to make such evocative and interesting work.

On this week's episode, we discuss:

• How Xuan got her start in photography.
• How Xuan has rediscovered herself by photographing the landscapes of Japan.
• How photography has become a vehicle to help her process grief.
• How she is able to photograph ephemeral moments.
• Learning about the landscapes of Japan.
• Xuan's secrets to launching her successful career in photography.
• How nature photography has enhanced her life.
• How Xuan works in projects.
• The power of mentorship and how it helped her elevate her work.
• And a lot more!

Other topics/links discussed on the podcast this week:

• Support the podcast on Patreon.
• My article about Xuan in On Landscape.
• Santa Fe Workshops.
• Elements Photo Magazine.
• Mary Virginia Swanson.
• Watch podcast episodes on YouTube, where we overlay photos with our conversation via video.

Here is who Xuan recommended on the podcast this week:

• Samuel Feron.
• Maurice Henri.
• Nevada Wier.
• Daniel Kordan.
• Seth Resnick.
• Ragnar Th. Sigurðsson.

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