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About me
I was fortunate enough to have had a very multicultural upbringing and many diverse experiences in my young life. I was born in Taiwan and raised on the Navajo Nation in Arizona as part of a biracial household. As a child, I spent summers enduring the monsoons of the tropics and running around barefoot in the deserts of the southwest.
As I grew older, I was able to take part in academic programs in the northeast and abroad.
It is perhaps because of these varied experiences that I am plagued by an insatiable wanderlust. I had a passport and took my first cross-oceanic flight by the time I was 10 months old. I have visited and photographed in 22 countries and still feel like I'm just getting started.
Photography is my way of bringing the world home with me.
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Gear
I shoot primarily with a Nikon D700 and have an arsenal of lenses to accompany it. The lenses I carry with me most often are the 50mm 1.4, the 105mm micro, and the 14-24mm 2.8. I do 99% of my post-processing with Lightroom3 and the remaining 1% in Photoshop CS5.
I also recently ventured into the world of medium format film photography and have invested in a Bronica SQ-Ai and a Hasselblad 500c, both of which have 80mm2.8 lenses.
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Why Penelope's Loom?
The name Penelope's Loom is derived from Homer's Odyssey. In the story, Odysseus' wife, Penelope, staves off the advances of hopeful suitors by telling them that she will choose one to marry as soon as she finishes weaving a burial shroud for her ailing father-in-law, Laertes. She spends each day at her loom weaving and at night, she returns to undo what she has done during the day so that she never completes her project.
To me, Penelope's process of creating, unraveling, and then re-creating distills the essence of the artistic process. As artists, we are constantly creating work, examining and deconstructing our creations, and then creating more based on what we've learned. The artistic process is ever-evolving and never complete.
Photos of Penelope's Loom (221)
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Groups (50)
- I Shoot Film 1,847,280 photos, 72,682 members
- Medium Format 549,441 photos, 20,959 members
- 'Roid Week 2011 3,492 photos, 1,359 members
- Hyderabad Weekend Shoots {Team HWS} 43,438 photos, 1,729 members
- Hyderabad Photography Club (HPC) 55,425 photos, 2,868 members
- Hasselblad 185,832 photos, 10,114 members
- Bronica 49,587 photos, 3,305 members
- City bokeh 83 photos, 146 members
- Gadling 30,143 photos, 1,575 members
- Enjoy Camera Life! 287 photos, 36 members
- New York life 149,124 photos, 7,670 members
- Too Pretty To Eat 21,491 photos, 1,337 members
- Eater SF 7,916 photos, 339 members
- Professional looking food photography 136,486 photos, 14,279 members
- urban visions 28,622 photos, 1,600 members
- Iceland. 121,650 photos, 5,683 members
- Japan Through the Eyes of Others 130,264 photos, 3,937 members
- Bubble Wizardy 10 photos, 10 members
- Cinematic Moments. 361,334 photos, 16,343 members
- Nikon D700 205,544 photos, 12,623 members
- People in the City 273,386 photos, 8,564 members
- Taiwan Photo Club 8,297 photos, 413 members
- Friends Of Photoworks SF 14,556 photos, 1,062 members
- Pineapple Seed Jewelry 141 photos, 54 members
- * Vanishing Points * 135,210 photos, 21,649 members
- Quilting madness 128 photos, 78 members
- Asian Female Self Portraits 7,838 photos, 1,340 members
- The Floating Project 1,217 photos, 397 members
- Bokeh Wednesday 56,346 photos, 3,033 members
- Self With Camera 12,448 photos, 3,418 members
- Taiwan 253,041 photos, 10,359 members
- Damn Hell Bathrooms 4,794 photos, 969 members
- ¡Bokeh! 70,918 photos, 3,545 members
- Just Jump 17,496 photos, 4,019 members
- Flickr Folk (Pictures of Flickr People) 1,122 photos, 121 members
- DottieboBottie Sightings 265 photos, 39 members
- [ s e l f - p o r t r a i t s ] 90,780 photos, 6,120 members
- REFLECTIONS / DISTORTIONS 198,326 photos, 17,391 members
- Self-Portrait With Camera [Reflected Self-Portraits Only] 27,774 photos, 11,662 members
- Flash Flavor 1,886 photos, 1,331 members
- SWPB - Succeeding as a Wedding Photography Business 73,176 photos, 6,264 members
- Flickr Hacks 464 photos, 15,312 members
- NIKON speedlight SB600 - SB700- SB800 and SB 900 60,208 photos, 8,276 members
- prime lenses (fixed focal length) 179,247 photos, 6,202 members
- Clones 17,744 photos, 5,504 members
- Artistic Self-Portraits 172,141 photos, 15,359 members
- Multiplicity 9,708 photos, 2,793 members
- I Ate This 483,177 photos, 26,022 members
- Airplanes and Airports 277,578 photos, 8,573 members
- airports 44,228 photos, 5,204 members
Galleries (12)
- Balloons 13 photos
- The Movement of People 13 photos
- Hands 14 photos
- Love and Touch 11 photos
- Silhouettes 2 17 photos
Testimonials (6)
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Madhu_Reddy says:
"What can I say except I wish I could borrow some of her talent. I have seen how her work has changed over time. I admire her learning and teaching ability the most...that she constantly is on the move with her camera. Her confidence in portraying her subjects is inspiring . Above all dear friend she is too :-) -thank you flickr for that."
18th August, 2009
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*linda (no longer using this account) says:
"Pei is just brilliant. Her work is astounding and she is one of the most talented photographers I have come across. Her creativity and talent are such an inspiration to me.
Pei, you rock!
:)"16th June, 2009
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ladder_711 says:
"Her aesthetic is incredible and her sense of capturing what is real in a moment is a never ending wealth of inspiration for me.
She is inventive, imaginative, skilled and exceptional. I would trust Pei with my most serious of photo assignments and the most important very often being that of the wedding of two lovers who wish to document their new magical lives together.
She is reliable, responsible, warm and exceptionally creative. A photographer to be admired and watched for years to come!"4th February, 2007
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MOEVIEW is Aaron Molina says:
"Penelope is in fact born a monster. Over the years her transformation from a monster inside a humans skin has still to this day baffled scientists. Penelope loves water towers, cold soup and the sound of broken children's toys. She is also an amazing photographer. Keep up the good work Penelope."
5th February, 2007
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* rel. says:
"a stunning vision pervades
her aesthetic shell.
a magic flair she weaves
instrinsic slices of life's
momentous beauty.
a witness to her photo aptitude,
i have been inspired copiously
by her craft and humanity that
distinctly dwells thru this loom.
it is my fortune, to call pei a friend
and a flickr p.i.c. (partner in crime :)"7th October, 2006
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~ fernando says:
"What do people do? Oh, they do many things... sometimes even get married. I think it is a benefit for people to pose for Pei, but I think they do not know this before they do it, only after. That is because they cannot anticipate how Pei is to see them differently than they could imagine. A lot of this comes through hard work behind the scenes, but also rather spontaneously, and that is where Pei excels: she can put those two factors together to show us the world that she sees, that is convenient full of people. It is nice to find out what people do though Pei's camera... just take a peek inside, and you will not see the value of tabloid again :)"
24th September, 2006
- Name:
- Pei Ketron
- Joined:
- December 2004
- Hometown:
- Tuba City, Arizona
- Currently:
- San Francisco, USA
- I am:
- Female
- Occupation:
- Special Education Teacher
- Website:
- Penelope's Loom
- Email:
- peiketron [at] yahoo.com