John S. says, "I don’t have paparazzi follow me, and I’m usually the one with the camera at family events, so, when Everlyn Choi pointed her camera at me to shoot my portrait, it seemed awkward, unnatural. Then, she held the camera down for a moment and asked me a question. I suddenly became a chatterbox and she my receptive and responsive audience. Although she kept snapping photos from this angle and that, occasionally suggesting a serious matter to elicit a pensive face or telling a joke to get me lost in laughter, she was ever engaged, laughing when I was funny, responding to my stories; sometimes, she’d set the camera aside and say, “Really?!” She made the hour shoot seem like a conversation with my favorite relative at a Thanksgiving dinner. In short: wonderful.
As for the quality of the pictures, they too are wonderful. They show with candor and affection a face that has been traveling for nearly seventy years. She has captured moments of wisdom, moments of joy. In a select few she was able to evoke some sadness, weariness. Perhaps, but, as my wife notes, “There’s always a gladness.”
Everlyn Choi is a consummate professional with the eye of an artist."See more