GOOD TALK WITH JENNIFER TAKAKI
Director & Producer for PHOTOGRAPHIC JUSTICE: THE CORKY LEE STORY
Director Jennifer Takaki has a background in journalism. Her focus is on people, history, food and culture. She believes in the importance of knowing one’s own family history and has worked as a hired documentarian to help people tell their family history in a film format.
Her feature documentary film, “Photographic Justice” provides a first-hand account of fifty years of Asian American activism through the lens of Chinese American photographer Corky Lee. She can speak to the importance of documentation and archival footage, knowing one’s own history, as well as the power of photography as a tool for action, advocacy and social change.