"I noticed that so many things felt very opposite, and I was interested in the experience of inhabiting this position, knowing how I felt when I was on the other side."
Butter Me Up And Call Me Trish
Jennifer Tee on Tulips, Documenting Migration, and Living at the Margins of History
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Ladan Osman’s Halos in Harlem
Years ago, I’d look through photobooks and think: great composition, beautiful work in the darkroom, wow what a scene. But then I focused on the gaze of the subject, really, the collaborator.
Artists Push Photography Across Time and Into New Material Space in i’ve been here before
The collective works in the show convey the capacity of photography and photo-ish objects to commune with the departed, to transport to the past/future and unknown, and to enliven silences and make noise.
Individual Collectivity: Scratching at the Moon at ICA Los Angeles
It struck me that the answer to my question, why now, was that California has been, for generations, shaped and influenced by migration from Asia, and the art being produced by people of these diasporas is too great to be overlooked any longer.