Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

An intimate portrait of the late, great Corky Lee, an award-winning photographer who communicated to the world the every | dG1faW1MRTE3SWdXSGM

Transcript

00:00This is a story that hasn't really been told.

00:04Where do I begin?

00:06I've been photographing Asian Americans in New York City for 50 years.

00:10All these events, and who do you see?

00:13You see Corky Lee taking pictures.

00:18You believe what you see.

00:20In junior high school, they showed the photograph of the completion of the railroad.

00:23I didn't see any Chinese.

00:25The audacity, they didn't want the Chinese to be photographed as part of the celebration.

00:30What was called history was not everyone's history.

00:33That's what set my course.

00:35I figured my contribution was for me to use photography as an organizing tool for social change.

00:43He did it because it needed to be done.

00:45I'm practicing photographic justice.

00:49At the height of this protest against police brutality,

00:53one swung a billy club.

00:56The New York Times, they said they didn't know of any violence.

00:59The New York Post said they had their photographer there.

01:01I said, well, my photograph showed somebody got beaten up.

01:04Okay, kid, bring it in.

01:06And I made the front page.

01:08It's really making art and politics come together in a way

01:13that very few other photographers have been able to do.

01:16I don't think people need to remember who I am.

01:19I think it's more important that they remember the images.

01:252001.

01:27September 11th happened, and that shifted my focus.

01:31There are Asians in the same uniforms as much as white Americans.

01:38That famous photograph was taken in 1869,

01:43and I decided that I should do something about it.

01:46The oppression of the Chinese 145 years ago

01:49resolved through an act of photographic justice.

01:57If you're a photographer, keep shooting.