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sparked controversy and debate. For many, the non-judgmental position of the work was problematic. Critic, Glen
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In 1980, Louie made his first journey to China with no clear agenda. He traveled throughout China, exposing more than 300 rolls of film from which he kept two pictures. Louie states in the book's forward, that he had to rid himself of all that he knew, clichés, bias, conventions to see China and to
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was a six-year exploration of the world of Asian sex work. For Louie, "Orientalia" was a continuation of his journey to understand Asia and to evolve an integrated self. "As I began to photograph in Asia, I also discovered that my ethnicity was not the only filter I was perceived through or shaped
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and the Center for
Documentary Studies at Duke University, Louie photographed a community and an arts project in North Philadelphia. During the 2000s, Louie was a contributing photographer for California magazine where he produced several photographic essays, whose subjects ranged from Chinese
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Louie's photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group shows including: the San
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Louie chose to explore these dynamics in the Asian sex industry where the relationships between women and men were visible and dramatically heightened. To represent the diversity of cultures, class, and economics, Louie photographed in China,
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is arguably the best photography book of the year. A decade of deep seeing gave him a collection of grave, perfect color photographs, pictures that far exceed the local circumstances of their making or Mr. Louie’s own quest for a past.”
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Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize. In 1999, he was the recipient of the
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Fulbright fellowship to study the history of Chinese photography. He was among the several photographers who covered the handover of Hong Kong back to China for
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compares people and places Louie photographed from 30 years to months before, to show the magnitude, speed, and drama of the changes to the country. And in
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understand his cultural heritage. Over the next ten years, Louie made repeated trips to capture his ancestral homeland's dramatic surge toward modernity.
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