JoSon

JoSon Biography:
joSon (jo-shon) was born in the Philippines to a Filipino-Chinese mother and an African-American father. At the age of ten, he was sent to live with his mother's family in Vietnam, where he was educated in a Buddhist temple throughout most of his teen years in preparation for becoming a monk. "I thought that was my calling long before I saw life through the viewfinder,' joSon continues, "-but the truth is, I have never left the monkhood. I just left the temple. You can see that very clearly in my work today in a landscape, a portrait or a flower - meditations on the beauty to be found in the simplest of forms.'  >>click here for more