https://www.dustindavidchu.com/blog daily 0.75 2021-10-06 https://www.dustindavidchu.com/blog/tatj6jsyicvf0w7vs797qka1jo5e2j monthly 0.5 2021-10-06 https://www.dustindavidchu.com/about daily 1.0 2025-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6020e79d10894c54832b430b/1633503221372-PPN5MQOGFWFBHA20M9LJ/Golden+I+website.jpg About - About the artist Dustin-David (DD) Chu is a fine art portrait photographer and poet based in the Bay Area in California. His works represent a documentation of his journey with his mental health, evoking resilience and spirituality outside of religion in his self-portraits and highlighting emotions, lighting, shadows, and bold colors in his general portraiture; symbolic in a way that hope breaks out of the darkness that we, as humans, will all come to experience. Born in 1993 and raised on the island of Oahu, DD grew up in a conservative Christian household, where over the years, the theology of Christianity and self-awareness in the nature of his sexuality began to conflict. DD has since then lived in various parts of the West Coast in the United States, where his journey with photography unraveled. From experimenting with sub-genres in architecture, urban exploration, landscapes, and works of abstract in the Pacific Northwest, to studying portraiture and lighting in Las Vegas, DD now remains in the Bay Area, presenting works of fine art, studying photojournalism and spirituality outside of religion, and being a mental health advocate in the LGBTQIA+ community. https://www.dustindavidchu.com/gallery-show daily 0.75 2025-09-01 https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1 daily 0.75 2023-12-28 https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1/abstract monthly 0.5 2023-12-28 https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1/architecture monthly 0.5 2023-12-28 https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1/creativeportraits monthly 0.5 2023-12-27 https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1/limited-edition monthly 0.5 2023-12-27 https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1/p/x monthly 0.5 2023-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6020e79d10894c54832b430b/1703745174301-LS210HAA2X3RR316BPNY/6300536002_f87bcd2617_w.jpg Prints - X https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1/p/a-body-of-water monthly 0.5 2023-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6020e79d10894c54832b430b/1703745107478-5TDXHEKH0HDFPYC7HB3K/6023796707_8b7d2bf31d_w.jpg Prints - A Body of Water https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1/p/sunset monthly 0.5 2023-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6020e79d10894c54832b430b/1703744968513-TXU9523LRNHBOIAA3FFH/7859433060_1902bfdf57_w.jpg Prints - Sunset https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1/p/candy-cane-webs monthly 0.5 2023-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6020e79d10894c54832b430b/1703744884372-1TTFI8D5J7XH0VFELKRI/30504926184_fc32952e0a_w.jpg Prints - Candy Cane Webs https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1/p/dreamcatcher monthly 0.5 2023-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6020e79d10894c54832b430b/1703744807850-6IDGK7CTSPAHJ3Z85TR9/14414725659_846042074b_w.jpg Prints - Dreamcatcher https://www.dustindavidchu.com/prints1/p/consumingyou monthly 0.5 2023-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6020e79d10894c54832b430b/1703575279717-BTPF8MFIH7J5G9JR73EV/Consuming+You.jpg Prints - Consuming You https://www.dustindavidchu.com/photography daily 0.75 2025-09-01 https://www.dustindavidchu.com/photography/publications monthly 0.5 2025-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6020e79d10894c54832b430b/97e79989-33d4-40f5-952c-6295f70c7fac/22f11394-6208-405d-90a2-ed975de876f7_2000x2828.png Photography - Publications - Darkrooms Magazine Spotlight #2 The blog announces SPOTLIGHT Issue #2, a curated collection of 100 photographers and their most meaningful images. 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