Bio
Darrell Wong

I was born 4 years before Statehood. I'm from Kapahulu, a neighborhood at the foot of Diamond Head.

 

My dad was an amateur photographer and was always taking pictures of our family and charities he belonged to; like the Lions Club. I never thought anything of it until I found old photos of our family in front of the “imu” at the old Queen's Surf restaurant in Waikiki... that classic building is long gone, but here it was still in this photo... and I thought, “This is cool!”.

 

I'm not your creative artsy kind of photographer... I consider myself a commercial photographer. You can't control the ocean and nature, so all I do is record what I see... while trying to focus on the clients' product. 90% of what I do is just being there.