About gene x

Co-founder of Orange Photography. Pinball enthusiast, Polaroid shooter, bike rider.

Best Event Photographers in San Francisco of 2025 Award winner!

2026-09-11T09:51:15-07:00By |Categories: Conferences and Special Events|Tags: , |

We’re proud to win another award as the Best Event Photographers in San Francisco this time from Fash for 2025!

Over the years we’ve won numerous awards from ones for Supplier of the Year (multiple times) from MPINCC and some from other online publications like Fash.  We’ve also been proud to have been awarded and recognized by Meetings + Events magazine, Smart Meetings and BizBash just to […]

Non-Profit Showcase: Duke Lemur Center

2026-09-11T10:10:40-07:00By |Categories: Feature Non Profit, Photography & Industry Perspective|Tags: , , , , , |

Ever since I was young, I was fascinated with lemurs and years ago learned about the Duke University Primate Center (as it was then called).  The facility was founded in 1966 on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC. As they state on their website,  "the Duke Lemur Center (DLC) is a world leader in the study, care, and protection of lemurs—Earth’s most threatened group of mammals.  With more than 200 animals across 14 species, the DLC houses the world’s most diverse population of lemurs outside their native Madagascar.

Twitter, @x and Orange Photography – a behind the scenes look

2026-09-11T09:51:18-07:00By |Categories: Conferences and Special Events|Tags: , , |

Well last week was quite a whirlwind and Orange got a lot of attention since one of our co-founders, Gene X Hwang (me) was all over the news cycle when Twitter completed it’s transformation to X and subsequently took over the @x Twitter handle, which I had owned since 2007.   We ourselves have had our account on Twitter since 2009 and as the news spread we found ourselves getting a lot of unexpected attention and […]

Orange Photography co-founder’s pandemic photo journal featured

2026-09-11T10:01:00-07:00By |Categories: Photography & Industry Perspective|Tags: , , |

As the pandemic took hold and closed down business across the world, we at Orange also felt the impacts and in all the cities our teams live and work in, we saw downtowns closing and businesses shuttering.  In September of 2020 The Frisc magazine featured some of our co-founder Gene X Hwang’s photography in a piece for their Street Photo […]

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