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Michael Deng ’18 Wins Gold Medal for Photography
Junior Michael Deng recently won a national gold medal in the 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. His award-winning photograph, Home Sweet Home, will be on display at the national ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York City on June 8, 2017. His photograph Dustless earned a silver medal in the same competition.
Michael has been a photographer and filmmaker since childhood. He began his formal study at a summer camp at the University of California at Santa Barbara at the age of twelve. At Woodberry Forest School, he’s worked with photographer and documentary filmmaker Richard Robinson, who teaches elective courses in the art department. And he started a film and photography club so that he and others can follow their passion for making images.
Michael’s documentary film projects about young people in his home country, China, have also been favorably received by competitions and audiences. Family Under the Roof tells the story of a boy, his siblings, and their father, who struggle with poverty while mourning the death of their mother and wife. And this past summer, he traveled to a Tibetan area of China and created a film about children there to help raise money so they can attend school.
“What engages me most about photography and film is that images have the power to change emotions,” Michael says.
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