by Matthew Yoshimoto, AsAmNews Intern
One month from now, a dream of the late Corky Lee, a “beloved” figure and photographer in the Asian American community who passed away from COVID-19 in 2021, will come true.
April 9 is the release date of the photographer’s book Corky Lee’s Asian America, edited by Chee Wang Ng and Mae Ngai.
The book is the first of its kind with it “ambitiously presenting not only an iconic photographer’s work but a sweeping, rich visual account of the AAPI social justice movement,” said Natalie Yera-Campbell, associate publicist at Clarkson Potter & Ten Speed Press, in an email to AsAmNews.
“Corky is so beloved in our community,” said Mae Ngai, one of the book’s editors and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and professor of history at Columbia University, in an email to AsAmNews. “He loved to share the stories that were captured in his photos but he was also a modest and unassuming, everyday kind of guy. And he was always there, at every event, big or small […] His slogan was to break racial stereotypes, one photograph at a time.”
