Hi! I’m Vivian.

I’m a New York City-based writer and photographer. I moonlight as a music documentarian and daylight as an environmental & public health advocate.

My work has appeared in print in Rolling Stone (Germany), CREEM, Q Magazine, American Songwriter, No Depression, SPIN, ICON, and New York Magazine, and online in The New York Times, RollingStone.com, Slate, Pitchfork, and Billboard. Artist interviews and live music reviews are on Un-Titled Project, Blurred Culture, Pancakes & Whiskey, and LADYGUNN.

Contact me using the form below or by e-mail: lithophyte.photo [at] gmail.com.

Lithophytes are plants, including orchids, that grow on rocks. One of the characters in my Chinese name is a type of orchid. I subsist on rock 'n roll. And there you have it: the origin story of the photography handle.

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