About Me

I'm Bill, a street photographer from Taiwan. I picked up my first camera at seventeen, and what began as a teenager's curiosity slowly became the way I pay attention to the world. Photography taught me to slow down, to notice how light falls across a sidewalk at a certain hour, and to wait for the moment when an ordinary scene quietly becomes something more.

Before I called myself a photographer, I was an engineer. I studied aerospace engineering in Taiwan and later continued in the United States. Engineering trained me to see structure: lines, balance, geometry, the way things fit together. Photography asked me to see everything engineering cannot measure: a glance between strangers, a pause before someone crosses the street, the feeling a city gives off at dawn. I've come to believe that a good photograph needs both.

In 2023 I moved to Massachusetts for graduate school, and Boston became my second classroom. On free days I caught the first train into the city before sunrise and walked until dark: Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Chinatown, across the river to Cambridge and back over the Longfellow Bridge. Some days ended at forty thousand steps. Those walks shaped how I photograph today.

In 2024 I made a turn I had been thinking about for years. I left my master's program to train full time as a pilot in Oregon, and in 2026 I earned my FAA commercial pilot certificate. Flying changed the way I see. From the cockpit, cities become patterns of light and shadow, and weather becomes something you read rather than simply notice. Aviation also sharpened habits that street photography depends on: scan constantly, stay patient, anticipate what happens next, and act calmly when the moment arrives.

My street photography is unposed and unplanned. I don't direct anyone or rebuild a scene. I simply walk, watch, and wait. I'm drawn to the small moments most people pass by: flowers left on a wet sidewalk, a cook lit by the glow of the grill, a stranger lost in thought on a crowded corner. These are the scenes that make a city feel human, and they disappear in a second if no one is there to keep them.

Today I'm back in Taiwan, working toward a career as an airline pilot, with a camera always in my bag. Wherever the next flight takes me, I'll keep walking new streets and adding them to the map in my gallery, one city at a time. Thank you for taking the time to look through my work. I hope a few of these photographs stay with you the way those moments stayed with me.