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Tiny Grains
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Pearl River Mart Soho Gallery
452 Broadway, nyc
Sept 18, 2024 - Jan 12, 2025
Opening Reception Sept 18, 6-8pm (rsvp)
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Ottendorfer Library
Nov 21
Pearl River Mart Gallery Sitting
Nov 23
The Project
Tiny Grains is a collection of photographs of the active participants in
Manhattan’s Chinatown during the COVID–19 pandemic through the return to “normalcy.”
This venerable neighborhood, always in transition, has been long been
plagued by injustice, underrepresentation, gentrification, and perceptions of foreignness.
The crisis starting in 2020 heightened these issues. As a born-and-raised resident,
I still feel their weight.
Instead of feeling helpless, I collaborate with the vibrant intergenerational
community members, fervently photographing the denizens, shopkeepers, artists,
and activists who are pushing forward the idea of Chinatown-for-Chinatown.
Together, through mundane acts, arts, music, food, advocacy, and storytelling,
we bear each other’s tragedies, keep each other safe, fight injustice,
reclaim space, preserve traditions, honor our past, envision the future,
laugh and cry, drink, sing songs for ourselves, and dance in the streets.
This aims to serve as a time capsule, preserving the history and
experiences of our Chinatown, engaging in dialogue with other works
made during the pandemic, and standing as a testament within Asian
American history.
The hope has been that Tiny Grains, subjective as it is, has become a
part of that movement which is attempting to build a more responsive
and responsible society.
Bio
Edward Cheng is a native New Yorker, freelance computer programmer, and
seasoned globetrotting backpacker. As a photographer, he works on long-term
projects documenting the Asian American experience in
Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown, Día de los Muertos in Mexico, and
Christian Holy Weeks and Easters around the world. Cheng is a teaching
assistant and a fixture at the International Center of Photography; he
regularly assists darkroom masters Steve Anchell, Brian Young,
and Chuck Kelton. He takes his mezcal oaxaqueno neat, his coffee black,
and his bed at three.
www.ewah.com |
@blinddrunkenmonkey |
@tinygrainsbook
Past Events
Borough Based Liberation Project
125 Walker, storefront for ideas, nyc
Sept 6, 2024 - til we get rid of this jail plan
Opening Reception Sept 6, 6-9pm
@boroughbasedliberationproject
Yu & Me Books
44 Mulberry, nyc
Book Talk — Oct 4, 6-7pm
In Conversation Rites of Passage
International Center of Photography
84 Ludlow Street
Oct 19 1pm
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