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Pamela Chen 芃安

@chenpamela

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☁️ Treasure hunter. @apple Aesthetics Science ☁️ I like to find things that are hard to find. ☁️ alumna @instagram @natgeo @jskstanford 🐱🐱🐣 🐣

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What Holds Us.

It’s been a while since I got to just make photographs. Thank you @kathyryan and @chenpamela for the idea and the freedom to run with it. What ensued was a wild 36-hour strike mission into the mountains to photograph the show.

Over my life I have returned to the mountains again and again. It’s there where I’ve learned to focus on the fundamentals. I come here to think about what matters, what holds us. In these raw, wild places there is no place to hide from yourself. I have experienced awe, loss, sorrow and peace, and joy I can’t explain. The mountains do not judge. They remain the great neutral teacher.

Four of these photographs feature @conrad_anker, someone who has committed a lifetime to a craft, in a place that was here long before him and will remain long after. The rest honor the place that nurtures us. The chaotic symmetry in rock and ice. Light moving across a glacier. Small things, easy to miss.

Honored to share the space, and some time, with two incredible artists, @alexprager and @jackdavisonphoto.

Grateful to Tim Cook, John Ternus, and the whole team at @apple: @tverrecchia @scottseviour and @musingmutley. To @erichroepke and @mikeylikesrocks on the ground, and to everyone who came out.

Shot on iPhone in Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia. #ShotoniPhone by @chenpamela

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Pulling back the curtain on developing Photographic Styles today @helloapple! It has been so rewarding to work with so many people, in front of and behind the camera, to understand what you love about making photographs, and infusing that love into our camera software. It’s incredible to see how people have flexed Photographic Styles already! Hope you give it a try…✨ taken in Apple Park by @chenpamela

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Day 16. (🔊🔛) 🗣🐎🎥: @puujee.sodnom + 🐴 taken in Mongolia by @chenpamela

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This story about halation is a glimpse into the much larger world behind the camera.

We have the privilege of working with engineers, scientists, artists, creators, designers, and image quality guardians who care deeply about making tools for people who love photography.

That means studying the history of photographic materials, the strange behaviors of light and perception, and the qualities of cameras people have loved — or loved to hate — for generations.

So when visionary director @alexprager said on set, “The neon doesn’t look right,” we recognized it immediately. Of course. We had been thinking about that too. Immediate mind meld!

Halation is one small detail. Behind it are huge teams noticing, testing, and caring about things most people will never know because it just works now. I’m so grateful to be part of it. Congratulations on What Holds Us curated by @kathyryan with our fearless leader @scottseviour and biggest thank you @alexprager for pushing us even farther with your art and mind’s eye. You are a true inspiration!✨🩵 taken in New York City by @chenpamela

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15 days ago

Photographers often shoot for a year or more to build a show. Jimmy Chin (@jimmychin) had 36 hours.

The photographer and filmmaker flew into the Bugaboos in British Columbia with Conrad Anker, his climbing partner of 25 years, and shot everything on an iPhone 18 Pro. Kathy Ryan (@kathyryan) and Pamela Chen (@chenpamela) of Apple (@apple) set the brief together, and Kathy edited the pictures into “What Holds Us,” which opened in New York on September 18. “I like that sort of pressure. It makes me very decisive,” Jimmy says.
Full story at the link in bio.

Words by @chrissforce. by @chenpamela

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***KATHY RYAN APPRECIATION POST*** Kathy Ryan, my enduring inspiration, is the visionary curator of What Holds Us — an ambitious photography exhibition by @alexprager @jackdavisonphoto @jimmychin. She brings together these three iconic artists from their far-flung worlds, and created space for each to go further and become even more fully themselves.

Dear Kathy, it has been one of the great honors of my life to support your vision as aesthetics scientist — to learn from the way you see, and to mind meld so deeply with you and the artists through the work we made together.

Thank you @kathyryan for helping us see what could be. taken in New York City by @chenpamela

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The studio of the artist @tomsachs is a whimsical tinkerer’s paradise and now @31ruecambon_ is Tom’s latest and biggest ever work of art now open there through October 10 in SoHo. Inspired by historical references and deploying the most wonderful concept of bricolage — that legos, unusual glitters and bicycle reflectors find their way in. To experience it is to feel your mind expand outside what you think you know in real time. ✨ pinch me! The vision, the obsession, the magic is beyond. taken in Tom Sachs Bodega by @chenpamela

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Two years and six months.

The time between their birthdays. The age each of them was when I made these pictures. And maybe the point in motherhood when I began to see the little humans they were becoming. by @chenpamela

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Commemorating an astounding 40 years of @inezandvinoodh now at @kunstmuseum.nl! It was an honor to write for your book, and contribute to this celebration of the gifts you’ve created for the world, dear I&V. The words are a glimpse into our conversations which I treasure most: on photography’s power to hold a moment across time and technologies, when harnessed by vision and purpose. ❤️✨ taken in Kunstmuseum Den Haag by @chenpamela

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3 months ago

I’ll give you my heart. In exchange, show me your dreams. Hong Kong ✨✨ taken in Hong Kong by @chenpamela

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I remain in the burrows of the western prairie 🎶 taken in Apple Park by @chenpamela

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4 months ago

hello #wwdc26 taken in Apple Park by @chenpamela

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