“It shouldn’t take violence and pain to create relevance for a vulnerable community”: Photographer Andrew Kung and creative director Kathleen Namgung speak to Arthur Tam about their new photo series, Perpetual Foreigner
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Timeless Photos Squash Stereotype of Asian Americans as ‘Perpetual Foreigners’ of Asian immigrants arrived on U.S. shores, many Asian Americans continue to feel like strangers in their own homeland.
Despite the community’s invaluable contributions to get America to where it is today, the group as a whole is still overlooked. Even worse, it is blamed for the most pressing problem that besets the country and the rest of the world at present.
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“We’ve earned our right to be here,” Andrew Kung, a Chinese American photographer based in Brooklyn, told NextShark. “And we should be proud of where we’re from.”
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