Tommy Kha’s haunting portrait of America’s Asian diaspora ❤️
In June 1875, police raided Edouard Buguet’s studio on Boulevard Montmartre in Paris. The photographer was on trial for fraud. Claiming to be entranced by spirits, Buguet shot portraits of the living that could seemingly capture the visiting ghosts of the dead. “My children, like myself, thought the likeness perfect,” one sitter testified.
It’s there in the room with his mother, partly concealed by a curtain. Or it’s placed like a mask on the face of his grandmother, lying flat in a sheet like a shroud.Kha tells AnOther“Photography is about haunting. It’s about how much of the past still plays out in our contemporary landscape.”In 1983, Kha’s mother fled Vietnam in the night. His grandmother, who later would join her, had sewed money into the waistband of her clothes.
Yet for Kha, his portraits of family are “half self-portraits”: “I tell their stories to figure out my own,” he explains. “It’s very much, ‘How do I arrive at my own representation?’” This involves breaking down western misconceptions of the Asian diaspora and its imagery. “Western ideas of the east have created a fiction,” says Kha, “and you can’t separate that from the western invention of the camera itself.
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