Asian Photographers Share the Stories Behind Their Names
Bella Abzug Park
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In the journey to feel at home in our Asian American or Pacific Islander identities, we may encounter different versions of ourselves. Through this collaboration, nine Asian photographers share the histories, meanings and stories behind our names.
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Eros and Its Discontents
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
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Eros And Its Discontents (2016-2023) documents individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community in India. This series of staged performative portraits show individuals who do not wish to put themselves in boxes, and thus their stories spill out of the frames and enter our imaginations.
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Adobe Lightroom Ambassador: Alixe Lay
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 1
Presented by Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Explore stunning and compelling visual stories — from the transitional spaces we use, to the shifting aesthetics of China — as told by our Lightroom Ambassadors.
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The Legacy of Korean “Comfort Women” and Their Continued Fight for Justice
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 2
Presented by Photoville
This work seeks to preserve the legacies and share the testimonies of Korean “comfort women,” a euphemism for women (mostly teenagers at the time) who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
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Adobe Lightroom Ambassador: Tristan Zhou
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 1
Presented by Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Explore stunning and compelling visual stories — from the transitional spaces we use, to the shifting aesthetics of China — as told by our Lightroom Ambassadors.
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Adobe Lightroom Ambassador: Piyatat Primtongtrakul
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 1
Presented by Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Explore stunning and compelling visual stories — of healing, love, joy and humanity — as told by our Lightroom Ambassadors.
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1000 Years Of Joys And Sorrows
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 2
In his widely anticipated memoir, “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows,” world-renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, while also illuminating his artistic process.
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Keeping Love Close: What Does Love Look Like? Asian And Asian-American Photographers Respond
Times Square – 42nd St & Broadway
What does love look like in a time of anti-Asian hate? Asian and Asian-American photographers respond.
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Asian Americans on Race and The Pandemic
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 1
In collaboration with TIME, photographer Haruka Sakaguchi documented the stories of ten New York-based Asian Americans, who share their experiences of racism during the pandemic, and how their perspectives have been shaped by recent Black Lives Matter protests.
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See, Be Seen
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The eight photographers in See, Be Seen address their interpretation of the city they live in. The images do not simply represent views of the city, they aim to offer deeper insights of their city: the scene, the history, the people, and the imagination.
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OYAKO (Japanese parents & children)
Annenberg Space for Photography
OYAKO, a series on Japanese parents and children, explores how culture changes and adapts as it moves from one generation to the next.
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Visual Communications: A Celebration of Community
Annenberg Space for Photography
This exhibition is an overview of Asian Pacific American (APA) community and activism, as seen through images culled from the organization’s Asian Pacific American Photographic Archive.
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Stitching Together: Garment Workers in Solidarity
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
On April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 lives were taken in the Rana Plaza Collapse. While history remembers this tragic event as the deadliest garment factory accident, activist and photographer Taslima Akhter reveals a story of dreams crushed by structural murder.
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Documenting China, Stories of Change
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
From the surprising fate of China’s shrinking cities, to the quiet resilience of young migrant women, this exhibition features long-term projects by Chinese visual storytellers, who examine a country that is constantly adapting and redefining itself.
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Invisible: Migrant Workers in Singapore
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
In this project, which was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center, photojournalist Xyza Cruz Bacani documents the lives of migrant workers in Singapore who left their home countries to seek a better economic future for their families but ended up being exploited.
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China Through Chinese Eyes
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
This exhibition explores social, cultural, and economic issues central to the Chinese people and captured through the eyes of Chinese photographers. It features the work of several visual storytellers published in Chinese media outlets, whose images piece together a nuanced view of this dynamic country, as they help China understand itself.
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Sensation Photography
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
This exhibit aims to introduce Korean photography past and present. The exhibition will consist of four parts: portrait, cityscape, landscape, and still-life. These are the same sections addressed in Sensation Photography magazine, in order to put the magazine within the historical context of Korean photography.
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A Peaceful Rebellion, The Faces of Dissent in Burma
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Photographer Chris Bartlett and journalist Delphine Schrank, author of The Rebel of Rangoon; A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma (Nation Books, July 2015), combine the ineffable image with the poetry of language to convey the hidden and very human experience of dissidence: of a social movement, until now largely closed from the eyes of the world, whose members dared across five decades of brutally repressive military rule to wrest their country back and deliver it to freedom and democracy.
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I AM A FOREIGNER: Labor Migration From Central Asia to Russia
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
An estimated 5-6 million people from Central Asia migrate to Russia every year in search of work. I Am a Foreigner documents the journey of these migrants as they travel by train from Central Asia, and illustrates the realities they face upon arrival in their new home.
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Worshippers
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
High Noon Culture & Art Corp presents “_Worshippers_” from Chinese artist Li Hao. The work explores the lives of worshippers of Jokhang Temple, a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Lhasa.
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Oct
32020
Asian Americans Reflect on Seeing Themselves, Race, and the Pandemic
New York-based Asian Americans who shared their experiences of pandemic-fueled racism with TIME gather for a virtual roundtable discussion on contextualizing anti-Asian racism during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sep
132015
Reporting Inside the Great Firewall: Photographers on Covering China
Many photojournalists rely on the basic protections of freedom of speech and freedom of the press to move freely, to access their subjects, and to bring their images to the public. But what is it like to photograph and report in the People’s Republic, where censorship is the norm and journalists often face more restrictions than regular citizens?
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