joSon
USA

Nominee

"Seventy-Five Views of the Golden Gate Bridge"

These image is selected from a larger work-in-progress titled “Seventy-Five Views of the Golden Gate Bridge”—a collection of black and white photographs inspired by the Japanese artist Hokusai’s, “Thi

Biography: Award-winning photographer joSon was born in the Philippines to a Filipino mother and an African American father. Sent to live with his mother's family in Vietnam at age ten, he was educated in a Buddhist temple in preparation for becoming a monk. "I thought that was my calling long before I saw life through the viewfinder," joSon recollects. "But the truth is, I have never left the monk-hood. I just left the temple." Today joSon is a professional photographer based in San Francisco whose work is collected by an international list of clients. His work has appeared in magazines including...