About four years ago, at the height of Covid, we lost Corky Lee, a photographer and activist. His work is the recent book, “Corky Lee’s asian American: 50 years of photo definition.”
We express my gratitude for his brother John Lee.
My brother Corky Lee was an independent photo journalist who used the Asian Asian community as a chronology. As the eldest son of the four sons born from Chinese immigrant parents, he grew up in a family laundry business, worked and became the first graduate of his family.
Since the 1970s, CORKY has chosen a camera as a tool for social change. Corky described his camera as a “sword for injustice” and began to quickly document, emphasize, and advocate the Asian American community.
Koki Lee
He called himself an unofficial Asian American photographer winner. His hope: “After people see my photos, they will basically learn something about becoming an Asian -American.” “It’s an attempt to educate people one by one.”
Koki Lee
His passion for “photo definition” was triggered when he saw the symbolic 1869 photos of the completion of the crossroads that excludes Chinese workers from teenagers.
In 2014, he finally revised the injustice by reproducing the same scene. This time, Chinese railroad workers and ancestors have revised their injustice with the descendants of other Asian Americans who were banned in the original photo.
Koki Lee
He has been dealing with protests, cultural congratulations, job equality, voting rights and daily life, and protest protests that record and rediscover Asian American history when there are no other people.
Corky’s photographs are the catalyst for national research so that the history of Asia and the Pacific islands can be accurately studied, described and taught.
His photographs were strong evidence that Americans of Asia and the Pacific Islands were essential to American society, not “eternal foreigners.”
Cork Covid died in 2021At the peak of infectious diseases, he picked up the campaign for Asian hatred crimes. He died in his life and died, and fought for his deep belief that the United States did his best when the United States practiced the diversity, equality and inclination of all people and communities.
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