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EPISODE · Nov 29, 2024 · 33 MIN

'Don't beat up on yourself': Photographer Russel Wong on overcoming academic struggles to find his talent

from A Letter To Myself · host CNA

For more than 40 years, Russell Wong captured the faces of some of Hollywood's most iconic stars – from Robert De Niro to Michelle Yeoh. But as a student in Singapore, he found himself thinking he was not good enough. Until his father, a doctor, gave him a camera before he left to study in the US. In this episode of A Letter to Myself, Russell opens up about how he discovered photography and what he would say to that young man. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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