– there’s an incredible backlash. Audiences are demanding better and more representative stories. Yet Hollywood persists in casting white actors and actresses in these roles anyway, which is... well, small-minded would be a nice way of putting it. Those in the AAPI community are rarely allowed to be powerhouses in film or helm their own franchises.
Honestly, in the wake of November, it has felt too easy to believe that a large part of the country has no interest in these stories, or in seeing us on TV. And I think our scattered representation is far from perfect, but it’s sweet and aching and somehow defiant progress.where they’re talking about Brian having no problem getting girls, and it struck me as I watched that I had never really seen an Asian American man rendered that way on television before: as straightforwardly attractive.
I’d love to see more Asian and Asian American photojournalists and photo editors. Most of the photo spaces I have worked in have been overwhelmingly white. So much of succeeding in photojournalism boils down to who you know and which editors you can connect with, and it can be difficult to have our work seen and get assignments if white editors are unwilling to look beyond people in their own circles.
In journalism at large I frequently come up against two schools of thought: one that states only people from a certain minority group should be allowed to report on that group, and another that believes minority reporters would be too biased to report on their own communities. I think both stances are too rigid. But I do think that the right to shoot needs to be earned – through time spent and customs learned.
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