Picture This!

你好 or hello! My name is Anya Frans and I was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. I currently live in Burlington, Vermont and am a Public Relations specialist in training at Champlain College.

That's me!

My two most prized possessions are my running shoes and my Nikon D3000 camera. I ran my first half marathon in April and am currently training for my second one this November. Yikes! I got into photography the spring semester of my sophomore year at Champlain thanks to my amazingly talented photojournalism professor Alison Redlich.

During the summer I interned at Shelburne Museum with Leslie Wright, the Marketing and Public Relations Director for the museum. While there I did a little bit of everything: organized press clips, worked a press preview, photographed special events, and of course did what interns do best...made lots and lots of photocopies.

Upon completing my internship I was hired by the museum as a sub-contracted photographer for special events (I still feel like a mexican jumping bean whenever I think about it). I was also hired as a freelance photographer by the New York Times to do a shoot for an upcoming article about Champlain's BYOBiz program and more specifically this guy...

Paxton Hall: PaxTunz owner and operator.

Photo by Anya Frans

In my continued commitment to photography and my developing interest in China I have elected to take China Mobile Journalism and Chinese Film in order to more closely study various aspects of Chinese culture through my passion for photography.

Beijing Bicycle directed by Wang Xiaoshuai was the first film shown in my Chinese Film class.

Pretty much I'm jumping out of my pants just thinking about all the photolicious opportunities that await me in China. I am (of course) also looking forward to learning about China's rich and diverse history through firsthand experience.

Xie Xie!

Anya