Issue 159
Guest Editor: Photographer’s Green Book 2022 Traveler’s Residents Lee Chang Ming
Lee Chang Ming, whose personal work was featured in Issue 158, guest edits Issue 159.
Chang Ming is a 2022 Photographer’s Green Book Traveler’s Resident. During the residency, each resident creates a resource that is designed to be free to the public and that “[speaks] to radically advancing the conversation of diversity and equity within the photographic medium.” Last month (Fraction 158) we invited the four residents to share their personal work. This month we hear from Chang Ming who describes his residency project on South East Asian photography resources., and who has also guest edited this issue, Fraction 159, choosing four portfolios to feature.
Bree Lamb and Leo Hsu
Managing Editors
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From Photographer’s Green Book Resident Lee Chang Ming:
In this edition of Fraction Magazine, I am glad to have the opportunity to introduce four visual artists from Southeast Asia, each with their fresh unique approach and style. Southeast Asia as a region is incredibly heterogenous, and this selection is simply a small glance at exciting perspectives in contemporary photography seen through the eyes of four artists from four different countries — Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. They delve into diverse subjects that are personal, political and poetic.
To find out more about lens-based art from Southeast Asia, check out the resource list “Across the S.E.A” on The Photographer’s Green Book website. I compiled this list in February 2022 and it consists of over 100 photography-related organizations and initiatives from the region and beyond. I hope this can be a starting point to discovering more voices in contemporary photography, and expand the diversity of those represented in the conversation of photography, thus shifting away from a Western-centric echo chamber.
Lee Chang Ming
https://www.photogreenbook.com/across-the-sea
Lee Chang Ming (he/him) lives and works in Singapore.
leechangming.com | @eelchangming
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