RUNDOWN:
5:15 pm Registration
5:30 pm Opening remarks and film screening
7:00 pm Fireside chat
7:35 pm Q&A
7:55 pm Closing remarks
8:00 pm End      

ASHK member price: HKD100
Non-member price: HKD120

Asia Society Hong Kong Center (ASHK) is proud to present a screening of the award-winning Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story, a documentary presenting an intimate portrait of the late, great Corky Lee, an award-winning photographer who communicated to the world the everyday lives and political activism of Asian American communities. Using his camera as a "weapon against injustice," Corky Lee's art was his activism and his unforgettable images of Asian American life empowered generations.

Following the screening, ASHK will host a fireside chat between the film’s director Jennifer Takaki and Professor Ying Chan, ASHK Scholar-in-Residence and a friend of Corky Lee’s, to discuss his legacy and their personal memories of the man and his work.

About Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story

For 50 years, Chinese American photographer Corky Lee tirelessly documented the celebrations, struggles, and daily lives of Asian American Pacific Islanders. Determined to push mainstream media to include AAPI culture in the visual record of American history, Lee produced an astonishing archive of nearly a million compelling photographs. His work took on new urgency with the alarming rise in anti-Asian attacks during the Covid pandemic. This film’s intimate portrait reveals the triumphs and tragedies of the man behind the lens.

Filmmaker Jennifer Takaki is a fourth generation Japanese American from Colorado. She began her career in journalism at a Denver TV station and later moved to Hong Kong to work with Encore International. In Hong Kong she produced English-based news programming broadcast in China, India, and the Middle East via Rupert Murdoch’s STAR-TV. In New York, she produced and directed “Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story” which premiered at DOC NYC and was supported by the Ford Foundation and The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). She was awarded the prestigious Better Angels Lavine Fellowship in 2023.

Ying Chan is an award-winning Journalist, media consultant, and educator. She was a professor and founding director of The University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre from 1998 to 2016. Prior to that, she spent 23 years in New York City with the New York Daily News, NBC news, and Chinese-language dailies, covering immigration, campaign finance, and US-China relations. She is co-founder of the Environmental Reporting Collective, a global network of journalists in Asia and Africa, and is on the board of management of Digital Asia Hub.

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