Images courtesy of the artist |
In her HAN IN TOWN series, Janice Chung captures what was once the epicenter of the Koreatown in New York City—Flushing, Queens—and focuses on the various businesses that have continued to serve the Korean-American community through all of the neighborhood’s transformations. By spotlighting these businesses, Chung investigates communal nostalgia for a Flushing of the past.
Her other series Where Are You? uncovers a vulnerable search for identity and belonging within the intimate spaces of family. Documented over the course of five years, photographs taken in her hometown of Queens weave together the places of Chung’s childhood. Viewers are asked to take a second glance and remain just a while longer in the generational gaps and cultural tensions felt by Korean Americans.
Chung, one of the two photographers featured in The Korea Society's Koreatown LA/NY, talks about her career and work.
Artist Talk: Janice Chung
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Video release
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ABOUT THE ARTIST: 
Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Janice Chung is a Korean American photographer whose work explores themes of nostalgia, home, and the hyphenated experience. Often utilizing the natural elements in her environment, Chung examines the nuanced complexities of Korean American identity within the diasporic struggle and immigrant narrative. Chung's work has been featured in publications such as Vogue, New York Magazine's The Cut, Hyperallergic, Damn Magazine, and Booooooom.
