American Scholar Magazine featured Betty Yu’s photography and multimedia project, “(Dis)Placed in Sunset Park“ in their current Winter 20201 issue!
You can pick up an issue of the magazine or read the full article online, link here and in my bio:
bit.ly/AmericanScholarBettyYu
You can also listen to their podcast where I was interviewed : "A Work in Progress: A Window on a Shrinking World" Podcast Interview
IMAGE: “Dad - still, quiet and daydreaming”. After working long hours for low pay in a garment factory my dad just wanted to sit and be still when he retired. 2019 (Sunset Park, Brooklyn. U.S.A.).
Excerpt from the article:
“Born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, artist Betty Yu has seen this neighborhood transformed by gentrification over the past several years. Her multimedia project (Dis)Placed in Sunset Park features stories of neighborhood residents affected by the breakneck changes around them. At one point, she realized that the project was missing a deeper look at her own family’s story: her parents settled in Sunset Park more than 40 years ago, after emigrating from Hong Kong. So in 2019, Yu shifted the lens to her mother and father and their ongoing fight to hold on to their home.
—Jayne Ross”