https://www.chriscckao.com/singles daily 0.75 2025-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1727602426280-S1LII9KCIA9DG867ITKY/image-asset.jpg Singles Ultra-processed Food: Joel Landy, 28, a participant in a National Institutes of Health study on the effects of ultra-processed diets, wakes up in a metabolic chamber on Aug. 14, 2024, in Bethesda, Maryland. for STAT News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1727602426280-S1LII9KCIA9DG867ITKY/image-asset.jpg Singles Ultra-processed Food: Joel Landy, 28, a participant in a National Institutes of Health study on the effects of ultra-processed diets, wakes up in a metabolic chamber on Aug. 14, 2024, in Bethesda, Maryland. for STAT News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1760579295175-8NERNU9YDWS7NVU3C3IG/KAO+001.jpg Singles Producer and songwriter Julian Giaimo plays a work in progress on guitar in his home studio in Kauneonga Lake, New York, on Oct. 11, 2025. Born in Sicily, Italy, he found music to be one of the few constants in a life of moving around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1758431642986-LZMEMIWW382JV7E5AHWL/FLY.jpg Singles FLY, design director of the Taiwan-based clothing brand DYCTEAM, attends the opening show of Taipei Fashion Week on March 27, 2025. FLY was surrounded by models wearing the brand’s design that highlights this season’s theme of sustainable, circular fashion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1711744502724-8I2O57CDNPWZVSUX5JPT/a3350c17-be46-4442-b278-1ab43e5c1815_rw_1920.jpg Singles Norma Gamboa, holding bundles of flowers, stands in front of the Balloons Away stall in The Original Los Angeles Flower Market on February 7, 2020, deciding which balloons to buy for her daughter’s basketball game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1758431827579-Y1C3LPHS3T31S9YWZN1Z/Yuanlin+after+Rain.jpg Singles A plant stands still in a reflective pond within an empty, enclosed lot on June 2, 2025, after a rainy day in Yuanlin, Taiwan. The photo is part of my ongoing project, “Yuanlin.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1710809349220-R4AN55LSW7A8OXW7QNVG/OSG2+-+small.jpg Singles Attendees of the Red Nation International Film Festival, a celebration of Native American narratives in cinema, gather at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills following the world premiere of “On Sacred Ground” on November 12, 2022. The 85-minute film is inspired by protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which traverses the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1758431439082-83E8BS5HOTKHVJZKHMGY/QueerandTransUtopiaKao03.jpg Singles Drag queen Carmilla Crowe performs at “A Midsummer Wet Dream,” a Shakespearean drag show hosted in Downtown LA, on August 24, 2024. The photo is part of my photo essay, “‘Queer and Trans Utopia’: The Ritual and Reimagination of Drag.” published in Fruitslice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1761862033534-30H951OV2FX2UC4EF13Q/image-asset.jpeg Singles A hauling truck drives past University Avenue in Syracuse, New York, on Oct. 9, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/cecc9c18-5b9a-4f80-8334-ccd9821973b2/image-asset.jpeg Singles Through one classroom window, another is framed, reflecting a building and the golden hour sky on July 12, 2025, in Syracuse, N.Y. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1710808801627-0YOW9UTNAE354K1TIY0M/image-asset.jpg Singles - UCLA academic workers joined around 48,000 academic workers across the 10 UC campuses in striking for improved working conditions and wages on Nov. 14, 2022. 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The photo is part of my photo book, “Humans of Yuanlin First Market.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f4d07672ed8b13ba90e9df/1729183158809-47ED3OCRQUZ6XJFTKKA3/pink+pony+club.jpg Singles Drag king Chase Lounge, dedicated to creating raunchy, fun, and COVID-safe drag spaces in Los Angeles that welcome transgender and lesbian audiences, performs on June 10, 2024, at “Pink Pony Club,” a show he hosts featuring an all-sapphic lineup. 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