• LIPO CHING

    PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO

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    The Ghosts of Sutro Baths

    Reenactors pose at the ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco in 2014. The Sutro Baths were an extravagant swimming pool and entertainment complex built in the late 19th century which was destroyed by a mysterious fire in 1966.

     

    No Photoshop manipulation: photographed with long shutter speeds at night, using a remote flash to paint the models with light.

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    2nd Place, Portrait Personality, 2014 SFBAPPA News Photography Competition

  • About LiPo Ching

    Photographer: After many years of working in the film industry, I earned my M.A. in Photojournalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia in 2012. I was an award-winning, Emmy-nominated staff photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury News between 2006-2018.

     

    Filmmaker: As a graduate of NYU film school, I’ve produced, directed and/or edited several award-winning short and feature films. My background includes extensive film and television production and post-production experience in Los Angeles and New York.

     

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  • PHOTOJOURNALISM HIGHLIGHTS

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    Democratic National Convention, 2016

    Hillary Clinton makes an appearance at the end of President Barack Obama's speech during the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

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    SJPD Officer Michael Johnson Memorial, 2015

    The casket of fallen San Jose police officer Michael Johnson is carried to the stage during a memorial service at the SAP Center in San Jose.

     

    1st Place, News Photography, 2016 BEST OF THE WEST Journalism Contest

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    Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero, 2012

    Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero connects with an upper cut on Selcuk "Mini Tyson" Aydin at the WBC welterweight championship in San Jose. Guerrero won the match to capture the vacant WBC interim welterweight title.

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    CZU Lightning Complex Fires

    Gov. Gavin Newsom tours the fire damage at Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County. Newsom looks through the charred trunk of the Mother of the Forest redwood.

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    Camp Fire Destruction, 2018

    Drone view of a home destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California.

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    China's Environmental Issues, Beijing, 2007

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    Intel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2010

    Intel employees get ready to celebrate the opening of its largest semiconductor manufacturing plant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

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    Reading an Anguished Brain, Science Magazine, 2019

    Stanford University clinical neuroscientist Leanne Williams uses brain scans to study depression, hoping to offer treatments based partly on brain circuitry. “Reading an Anguished brain” is part of series dealing with suicide prevention in the August 2019 issue of Science Magazine.

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    Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting, 2019

    Lorena Pimentel whose daughter Keyla Salazar was killed during the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, is comforted by friends and family at her house in San Jose.

     

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    Quest for Fire, Science Magazine, 2019

    Chemical engineer and entrepreneur Rob McGinnis’ new start-up, Prometheus, has built a device that extracts ethanol from carbon dioxide. Story in the July 2019 issue of Science Magazine.

     

    No Photoshop manipulation: ethanol, synthesized in the device behind McGinnis, was ignited on a glass plate.

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    Viewfinder Blog

    VIEWFINDER Blog, 2006-2012

    A photography site promoting the works of Bay Area Newsgroup photographers.

    Viewfinder Blog

    San Francisco Chronicle profile of Santa Cruz Warrior Vander Blue, 2019

    Vander Blue’s singular pursuit of playing at basketball’s highest level has persisted through seven years of instability, anguish and glimmers of hope.

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    Where We Live: The Art of Dance, 2015

    A photo project in collaboration with the Ballet San Jose.

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    Justice for Oscar Grant

    Demonstrators at the rally and demonstration in response to the Johannes Mehserle verdict in downtown Oakland on July 8, 2010.

  • Documentary Videos

    Disabled in Vietnam

    Disabled students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam find hope in Dovan Do's IT Training Program. Do was a translator for American special forces and became handicapped from a bombing during the Vietnam War.

    • 2010 News and Documentary Emmy Award nomination

    3rd Place, Feature Multimedia, 2010 NPPA Best of Photojournalism contest

    Sex Trade in Vietnam

    Seven Vietnamese teens in Rach Gia City almost fall prey to human traffickers.

    The Catalyst Foundation sponsors programs to help poor Vietnamese avoid human traffickers.

  • MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM:

    Multi-chapter stories with online presentation

    Hanging: The Mysterious Case of the Boy in the Barn

    Hanging Story

    How did 10-year-old Joshua Klaver end up hanging to death in the family barn?

    A sheriff’s deputy. His young son. A bitter custody battle. A haunting death. Was it suicide or something more sinister? Twenty-five years later, Santa Clara County sheriff’s detectives returned to take a closer look. So did we.

    Video trailer for six-chapter story.

    A multimedia online presentation and podcast was produced to accompany each of the six chapters of the story. Viewers rated the podcast series 4.5 (out of 5) stars on iTunes and it remained on the top 10 podcasts charts for several weeks.

     

    Longform Storytelling Winner, Society of Professional Journalists 2018 Excellence in Journalism Awards

     

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    Technology Redefines Our Lives

    Tech Story

    In this eight-part, year-long series, we explore a difficult-to-describe, everybody’s-experiencing, everywhere-we-look story: how technology is transforming everything about the way we interact with each other and the world around us.

    Tech Story

    Chapter 7: Tech Redefined FAME centerpiece

    Technology has given the public another way to get their 15 minutes of fame.

    Karen X. Cheng poses for a portrait at the South San Francisco BART station where she filmed her viral YouTube video "Girl Learns to Dance in a Year."

     

    Tech Redefined FAME video:

    Introducing the iChicken

    iChicken parody

    The San Jose Mercury News attempts to produce a viral parody video as a multimedia companion to its FAME story in the year-long series on how technology has redefined our lives.

     

    CLICK HERE to read FAME story and why we did not quite succeed.

     

  • VIDEO JOURNALISM

    California’s right-to-die law: The last days of Jil Finnegan

    Suffering from terminal cancer, Jil Finnegan decided with her husband Geoff Protz, that she would use California's End of Life Option Act to peacefully end her life on their 14th wedding anniversary at their home in Oakland, California in 2017.

    2nd Place, Video Journalism, 2017 California Journalism Awards

    Over 2 million video views and growing

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    VIDEO: Ariel Hsing, Olympic Table Tennis

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    Video profile series of 2012 San Francisco Bay Area Olympic athletes.

    2nd Place, Short Multimedia, 2012 SFBAPPA News Photography Competition

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    VIDEO: Disarmed and Dangerous: 944 Lost Guns

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    Since 2010, law enforcement personnel throughout the Bay Area and California have been losing their weapons at an alarming rate -- and fewer than 20 percent have been recovered.

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    Battered by winter storms, Big Sur is cut off from California

    After Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge closes due to structural damage and winter storm damage blocks Highway 1 to the South, residents are stuck in Big Sur in March, 2017.

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    VIDEO: Ear picking in Vietnam

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    Feature video on the ear picking culture in Vietnam. This intriguing, cultural piece has gained a small following from the ASMR community with over 400,000 video views on YouTube since 2011.

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    How to build an edible Halloween skeleton platter

    EAT DRINK PLAY food and drink feature from the Mercury News in the style of the Tasty food video.

    LiPo Ching: Videographer and Editor

    Mary Orlin : Producer

     

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    Drone Footage Shows Collapse of Highway 1 Near Big Sur

    A stretch of Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast in Monterey County washed away Thursday after being hit by a debris flow off a hillside following heavy rains. That portion of the scenic road had already been closed as part of a 44-mile closure due to the county’s evacuation order ahead of the rain. It was immediately unclear if the debris flow that is eroding this portion of Highway 1 was connected to the Dolan Fire burn scar, although the area has been susceptible to mudslides in the past.

    LiPo Ching: Videographer

    Caron Creighton : Editor

  • INFORMATIONAL VIDEOS

    Short 3-5 minute videos for organizations to describe, illustrate and inform the public on what they do.

    Linux Foundation Training

    Learn more about Linux Foundation training and why it can help your company get the most out of Linux.

    Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowships

    Stanford University's John S. Knight Journalism Fellows are in the vanguard of 21st Century journalism: men and women who will be forces for innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership.

     

    Geri Migielicz/Story4: Producer and B-Roll Video

    LiPo Ching: Interview Videographer and Editor

  • Public Relations Videos

    Makara

    A short explainer video for the cloud-based software company MAKARA that was featured on the TechCrunch technology blog.

    LogLogic: Saving Lives Through Computer Forensics

    "I Love Logs" campaign for LogLogic: see how LogLogic once saved an executive's life by tracking the company's log files.

    Cisco IT Innovations Forum

    Interview style promotion: a case study by Page One PR on their work with Cisco's IT Innovations Forum.

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