Reunification (I), Millington, TN/Brooklyn, NY

“While appropriating/archiving my mother’s photography with my own document post-immigration experiences through quarter self-portraits and half self-portraits (photographs of my grandparents and mother). The relationship between photography changes within two generations—my mother’s work depicts gatherings, celebration, and liberation, whereas my work is performative and semi-fictive. An ongoing rendering of assimilation, a product of Vietnam War color photographs and refugees. Thus, my work is a mapping of Asian Diaspora.”

– Tommy Kha