A few weeks back “Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story” screened at the inaugural Taos Film Festival where Director Jennifer Takaki and Editor Linda Hattendorf were in attendance. Thank you to the festival organizers and all the wonderful fellow filmmakers!
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For 50 years Corky Lee tirelessly documented the celebrations, struggles and daily lives of the AAPI community. This film serves as a tribute and testament to the importance of his life’s work. The screening will be followed by an informal discussion about the film and Corky’s legacy between Director Jennifer Takaki and Executive Producer George Hirose. Corky Lee was vital to the Japanese American community, photographing many events and helping to connect people and community leaders. Audience members are kindly invited to join the conversation. There will also be a reception with light food and drinks after the Q&A. Everyone is invited!
Please RSVP by May 15th to [email protected] with “RSVP Corky Film” in the subject line.
Attention Great Neck residents, we’ll be headed your way for a free community screening! Held at the Great Neck Library’s Main Library Community Room, you’ll have the chance to watch our film and hear from Director Jennifer Takaki, Executive Producer George Hirose, and Producer Linda Lew Woo, following the screening.
The screening is free, but RSVP is recommended as there are a limited number of seats.
Save your seats today! /event/16549482
“Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story” is headed to New Mexico for the inaugural Taos Film Festival! With 2 available screenings on April 24 and 26, you can watch our film accompanied with the short film, Onlooker.
Friday’s screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Jennifer Takaki and Editor Linda Hattendorf, who is a local resident of Taos.
Get your tickets now: /festival/
Last month the Photographic Justice team had a lovely time traveling to Mount Holyoke College for a screening that was organized by the students! The screening was followed by a Q&A with Director Jennifer Takaki and Executive Producers George + Hillary Hirose.
Thank you to Angela, Michelle, Linda, Cindy and Kendall for planning and hosting such an insightful and invigorating event.
“The U.S. Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Asian Pacific American Museum of History & Culture” needs your help! The commission is seeking to create a blueprint to build a feature museum that would hopefully be located on the National Mall in Washington DC, but they have only until October of this year. To help build out this plan, the commission is going on tour seeking input from local communities around the US. Over the next few weeks they will be visiting cities like Honolulu, Ann Arbor, New Haven, Houston, etc. They’d love to hear from you, let’s help them make this happen!
For a full list of cities and how to attend, visit their Eventbrite page here: /o/111653695871
Happy Holi! Known as the “Festival of Love”, this Hindu festival celebrates the eternal and divine love of the deities Radha and Krishna and people get to unite together forgetting all resentments and all types of bad feeling towards each other. The day signifies the triumph of good over evil, as it commemorates the victory of Vishnu as Narasimha over Hiranyakashipu.
Lunar New Year Parade, Corky Lee Way, Chinatown, NYC 2026
Viewing the parade from my favorite spot on Mott looking up towards Corky Lee Way. Corky would have been in the middle of it all, running around everywhere, and taking photos of everything! We miss you Corky 💜
music: “Chinese New Year - Home” performed by Kenji Aoi
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Today is The Day of Remembrance for Japanese Americans. On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which gave the U.S. Army the authority to forcefully remove Japanese Americans from the West Coast in Washington, Oregon, and California during WWII. This meant that over 95% of the Japanese population in the US was evacuated and put into internment camps located in barren areas across the US.
Here is a photo Corky took, years later, of a group of JA’s at a Day of Remembrance event in NYC.
Happy Year of the Horse! 🐴
Today kicks off the Lunar New Year. With festive parades and celebrations, Corky loved this time of year. Want to pay tribute to his legacy? Find an event near you, photograph it and share with your network, including us!
Exciting news, Bruce Lee is getting his own stamp! Available a week from now, on February 18 you can pick up your very own Bruce Lee Forever stamp from The U.S. Postal Service.
If you find yourself in Seattle, there will be a first-day-of-issue event that is free and open to the public at 2pm at the Nippon Kan Theater. To register visit usps.com/bruceleestamp
Who would you like to see on a stamp? Our number one choice is of course Corky ❤
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