{"id":37869,"date":"2014-10-22T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37869"},"modified":"2015-10-27T00:48:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:48:04","slug":"snap-space-presents-zun-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37869","title":{"rendered":"Snap! Space presents Zun Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/snap-space-presents-zun-lee-tickets-13678620121\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Snap! Space presents Zun Lee<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snaporlando.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snap! Orlando<\/a><br \/>\n1013 E. Colonial Drive<br \/>\nOrlando, Florida 32803<br \/>\nSaturday, October 25, 2014 14:00-16:00 EDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Join us for an afternoon artist talk and book signing with photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zunlee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zun Lee<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zun will be joining us from Toronto and discuss his series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceibafoto.com\/tag\/zun-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8216;Father Figure&#8217; and sign copies of his newly released book Father Figure \u2013 Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood<\/em><\/a> (September 19, 2014.) Zun&#8217;s book release party at the Bronx Documentary Center was so highly anticipated that crowds lined the street surrounding the building around the block to get in. This afternoon at <a href=\"http:\/\/snaporlando.com\/events-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snap! Space<\/a> is not to be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of three years photographer Zun Lee has masterfully attempted to change the perception of the African American father through the lens of his camera. This collection of photographs in the new book is an immersive approach to his remarkable photo documentary project. \u201c<em>Scenes that can stand on their own and humanize the black experience without demanding perfection or respectability<\/em>,\u201d says Lee were filmed with so much care\u2014vivid images of loving parental relationships that are able to engross any spectator into a family story that is tough to believe. An added revelation: the photographer himself grew up feeling a sense of loss due to his own father\u2019s choice to abandon his family.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, a Toronto-based physician and now self-described street photographer, was born in Germany to what he thought was both a Korean mother and father. As a boy he learned the truth: his black father left his mother upon learning she was pregnant. Lee\u2019s search for compassion led him to families in urban areas of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>, and home to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toronto\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a>. Says Lee: \u201c<em>There\u2019s been considerable backlash and confusion regarding why black fatherhood stereotypes are a problem at all, why the special focus on only black fathers, and people who simply refuse to believe that black men can be capable, affectionate loving fathers, period. I appreciate both sides of the collective commentary, because it exemplifies why these images and a broader conversation are needed.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/snap-space-presents-zun-lee-tickets-13678620121\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snap! Space presents Zun Lee Snap! Orlando 1013 E. Colonial Drive Orlando, Florida 32803 Saturday, October 25, 2014 14:00-16:00 EDT (Local Time) Join us for an afternoon artist talk and book signing with photographer Zun Lee. Zun will be joining us from Toronto and discuss his series &#8216;Father Figure&#8217; and sign copies of his newly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,414,13,8,20],"tags":[147,18229,18230,15283],"class_list":["post-37869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-asia","category-family","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-photography","tag-snap-orlando","tag-snap-space","tag-zun-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43516,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37869\/revisions\/43516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}