October is Filipino American history month. I’m excited, and truth be told, nervous, to give an artist talk about images from my long-dormant “Filipino American Navy” Project. The talk will mark a kick off of sorts for a physical exhibition of prints that will run at the City of Austin’s Asian American Cultural Resource Center @aarcatx till the end of the year.
I’d like to use the talk to present my own background growing up in and among FilAm Navy families, as well as touch on ideas of labor and identity, immigration and belonging, material culture and the possibilities of photographic dignity.
