Stephen Ho is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, born in Oakland and raised in El Cerrito. He attended the University of California at Davis, earning a Bachelor’s in Technocultural Studies (now Cinema and Digital Media) and Japanese.
He spent three years in Japan teaching English in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme, where in 2011, he coordinated efforts to translate and disseminate information and rumor control to foreigners within Japan and abroad regarding the situation after the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
After returning to the United States, he attended Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts where he earned his MFA in cinematography and was assistant to Bill Dill, ASC. While there he worked on a variety of films that spanned many genres. He is now living in Los Angeles where he hopes to continue using his skills as a cinematographer to tell visually interesting stories.
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