Chinatown Photo Album: Photo Archiving Workshop

Think!Chinatown is happy to host “Chinatown Photo Album: Photo Archiving Workshop” at our 1 Pike studio! Some words about the event from the organizers, Hannah Miao and Lynn Huynh from Chinatown Photo Album:

“Bring your family photographs to Think!Chinatown as we digitize images and build an archive of Manhattan’s Chinatown. We will scan your physical photos and send you digital copies for free.

Chinatown Photo Album is collecting Asian American family photographs taken in Manhattan’s Chinatown pre-2010 with the aim of celebrating the cultural heritage of the neighborhood in the face of gentrification. The project will present the archived family photos, along with brief written histories from the submitters, on Instagram as an accessible online collection. Interested participants can attend the workshop on April 27, or submit digital images directly to @ChinatownPhotoAlbum on Instagram or via email to chinatownphotoalbum@gmail.com.

Attendees can RSVP, but registration isn’t required

The workshop will be led by Hannah Miao and Lynn Huynh as a part of the What Can We Do? micro grant program, presented by Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Special thanks to Council Members Christopher Marte and Sandra Ung.

Hannah Miao is a writer, journalist, painter and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores love and safety in community; family, born and chosen; and Asian diaspora. She is a 2023 Create Change Fellow at The Laundromat Project. Hannah was an inaugural Bandung Resident at A4 and MoCADA, and a Young Artists of Color Fellow at FABnyc, where she also teaches visual arts workshops for children and families. Her writing has won awards from the Asian American Journalists Association and the DeWitt Wallace Center.

Lynn Huynh is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She explores food, race, and design in the city, particularly paying attention to how these conditions shape the Asian American community. Her scholarship, creative practice, and aspirations are grounded in the idea that we must (and can) radically reimagine and rebuild a world made for us. Her writing will be in the forthcoming Radical Food Geographies.”