quỳnh tâm vũ

Boxinette King, a long time Black Brothers Esteem member, plays his tambourine in celebration of Cecil Williams, at the Glide Memorial Church, in San Francisco, Ca., on May 12, 2024. (Tâm Vũ / San Francisco Examiner)

Derrick Lew, center, stands with his colleagues to salute for their promotion in the Scottish Rite Masonic Center on Wednesday July 24, 2024. The San Francisco Police Department is currently celebrating the promotion of several officers to high ranks within the force. This occasion comes at a time when the department is grappling with a shortage of staff and overall resources in the city of San Francisco. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

A disciple of the Chùa Từ Quang temple prays to an alter in San Francisco, Ca., on March 24, 2024. (Tâm Vũ / Xpress Magazine)

Shellena Eskridge, executive director of the Homeless Prenatal Program, who has seen family and friends become displaced, stands in the maternity resource floor in San Francisco on Friday, May 31, 2024. Through a program called Rapid Rehousing, San Francisco has displaced over 100 Black families outside of the city. Data obtained by The Standard shows Black families are far less likely than other races to remain in San Francisco through the program and then many become homeless again. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

Besos4Baby, a femme Chicana punk band based in Fresno, pose for a portrait in their practice space in Berekely, Ca., on November 10, 2023. 

(Tâm Vũ / SF State Magazine)

Kenneth Cocking sits on the doorstep of his RV with his dogs on Lake Merced Boulevard on Monday July 29, 2024. Cocking currently splits his time between a shelter and his RV since his shelter has many restrictions. Mayor London Breed said a “very aggressive” sweep of San Francisco homeless encampments will start in August, after a recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the path for widespread enforcement. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

Sigil Wen, a 20-year-old senior AI engineer at Airchat, looks at his own reflection through an infinity cube in his apartment on Mission Street in SoMa on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. International Silicon Valley startup employees must secure an O-1 visa — for "Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement” — in order to work in the United States and utilize a variety of resources including “get-a-visa” salons, secret Slack groups, and how-to events to navigate the process. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

Christopher Renfro holds his espresso cup in his mouth in Excelsior Coffee on Friday July 19, 2024. Christopher Renfro loves Excelsior Coffee for the intentionality in how they fuse flavors from different cultures to represent the Excelsior district. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

Gaelan Spor, left, pushes her daughter Lumi Spor, right, on the swings at Jackson Playground in Potrero Hill on Tuesday July 9, 2024. Many parents in San Francisco are anxiously waiting for the school closure decision by the district that will affect hundreds of students and families are having to consider a range of educational alternatives for their children for the upcoming school year. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

Ashley Arellano, a dominatrix and hair stylist, holds up her whip in downtown Santa Ana on November 21, 2023. (Tâm Vũ / Journalism 435)

Christopher White, newly named executive director of the SF Bike Coalition, sits on his bicycle beside a newly installed bike lane as another bicyclist passes by on 17th Street and Wisconsin on Thursday, June 20, 2024. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

Business owner, Andrew Barnett, stands outside of the Linea coffee shop on Mariposa Street in Potrero on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. San Francisco coffee aficionados and insiders have had a multitude of reactions to third wave coffee shop Sightglass founders and brothers Jerad Morrison and Justin Morrison “selling out” and step down as former Starbucks executive Sharon Healy steps in. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

Curt, left, and Shelley Chaffee, right, sit together on the bench where Shelley stood on to get a better view at the Bison Paddock in Golden Gate Park on Monday July 8, 2024. Curt and Shelley Chaffee from Monterey were outraged, shocked, and confused after encountering the city's juvenile court system in the weeks following an incident in which two teens robbed them at gunpoint in Golden Gate Park for a camera. The teens then crashed a getaway car into a building in the Richmond District. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

Restaurant owner Tony Lee, right, sits in his car before driving through the protest route starting on Great Highway and Lincoln Way in the Sunset neighborhood on Thursday July 18, 2024. From bike lanes controversy to the Great Highway car ban, SF drivers are fighting back against the closure of the automobile ban along Highway 1. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

Bill Jackson sits on his couch with campaign literature surrounding his coffee table in Noe Valley on Friday, June 21, 2024. Jackson is a Republican education consultant and co-founder of the moderate-leaning Briones Society in San Francisco. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)

An encampment is nestled within the vegetation in Golden Gate Park on Tuesday May 28, 2024. The annual point-in-time count found that Golden Gate Park had the largest spike in homelessness of any SF neighborhood last year—but that only counted the visible tents. (Tâm Vũ / The Standard)