Jarod Lew & Reagan Louie on Asian-American Identity and Its Shifting Photographic Language.
About this episode
Photographers Jarod Lew and Reagan Louie discuss cultural identity and its representation in photography.
Photographers Jarod Lew and Reagan Louie join PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf to discuss how they explore cultural identity, personal loss, and trauma through photography. Lew and Louie are Asian American photographers from different generations, and their work reflects how the exploration of cultural identity in contemporary photography has evolved over the decades. While Louie takes a documentary photography approach, Lew works through more conceptual constructs. Their conversation with Wolf highlights the visual differences between their practices while revealing striking resonances in how they discuss their approach. https://www.jarodlew.com https://www.reaganlouie.com Jarod Lew is an artist who draws on photography to explore intergenerational encounters with diasporic loss, displacement, and postmemory. Through this exploration, his work contends with the performativity of race and its instability as a locus of meaning. His project, Please Take Off Your Shoes was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2021, and was exhibited in a group exhibition at SFMOMA titled Kinship: Photography and Connection in 2023. His other project, In Between You and Your Shadow, examines his…
People in this episode
Host: Sasha Wolf
Guests: Jarod Lew, Reagan Louie
Topics covered
- Asian-American identity
- cultural identity
- photography
- personal loss
- trauma
- documentary photography
- conceptual photography
Keywords
- Asian-American
- photography
- cultural identity
- personal loss
- trauma
- documentary
- conceptual
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: PhotoWork Foundation, SFMOMA, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Books & works: Please Take Off Your Shoes, In Between You and Your Shadow
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