Photographic Justice The Corky Lee Story Trailer

Photographic Justice The Corky Lee Story Trailer - official movie trailer HD

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

00:04Where do I begin?

00:05I've been photographing Asian Americans in New York City for 50 years.

00:09All these events, and who do you see?

00:13You see Kalky Lee taking pictures.

00:17You believe what you see.

00:19In junior high school, they showed the photographs 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.

00:29What was called history was not everyone's history.

00:33That sort of set my course.

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

00:42He did it because it needed to be done.

00:45I'm practicing photographic justice.

00:48At the height of this protest against police brutality, one of them swung a billy club.

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

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

01:01I said, well, my photograph showed something 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 that very few other photographers have been able to do.

01:15I don't think people need to remember who I am.

01:18It's more important that they remember the images.

01:252001.

01:26September 11th happened.

01:28And that shifted my focus.

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

01:36Step. Step.

01:37That famous photograph was taken in 1869, and I decided that I should do something about it.

01:45The omission of the Chinese 145 years ago resolved through an act of photographic justice.

01:56If you're a photographer, keep shooting.

01:57A great vision.

02:17The omission of the Japanese 145 years is strong.

02:19Remember this?

02:20The omission of the Chinese 145 years is hard to accomplish.