Meet your Photographer.
Artist Statement & Mission
Creative photography to inspire the soul and exercise the brain.
Artist Bio
Taylor Thia Xiong is a creative photographer, blogger, and artist based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her passion for photography extends to all subjects, but her main elements of focuses are creative photography and capturing natural moments as they occur. Currently, she is doing freelance work, and creating projects for inspiration or community building.
Taylor has done photo journalism for the non-profit organization CHAT heading their segment of “What did I miss” on their website. She is also CHAT’s volunteer photographer where she captured events such as Fresh Traditions at the MN Historic Society, Finding My Soal the theatrical production, and the annual Hmong Arts Festival; in addition, she has participated in the well recognized, annual, Saint Paul Art Crawl. Furthermore, she works in collaboration with talented, Hmong rap and hip-hop trio, Hilltribe.
I am an artist of all sorts —- crafting has become less of a hobby, and more of an obsession. My strongest point is of course what you see here, photography. My largest goal is to bring my imagination to life —- it is what I live for. I do all sorts of photography, but my main focus are portraits that have a thatsmstaylorrr zing to it. I absolutely adore my supporters, they are a big part of what helps make “it” happen. I carry myself pretty openly, and hope that my hard shell does not scare anyone away. If you have a crazy idea, try me, I might just fall for it!
I still have a lot to learn, and will continue learning through every mistake and failure. Once in a while, as an artist, I may hit a dead end, but I’ll turn right back around and start again. My love for art and photography, and my lines of creativity will continuously flow. I yearn for more despite my ups and downs; these challenges will only make me work harder. I wish to create according to these crazy clusters that muster in my mind, and to the dreams that live in my heart. I hope to inspire everyone who crosses paths with mine.
-Taylor
*In all courtesy and respect, as an artist, I would only like to ask that if you are interested in borrowing my photos and/or any other pieces or posts which belong to me, it would be much appreciated if you’d please credit me, or link them back to me. Everything found on this page, unless specified, belongs to me.
Thank you.
