Las Fotos Project's Sister Circle presents Connecting Through Time
A presentation and conversation led by Kimberly Espinosa and Katherine Kim on intergenerational storytelling and the oral history process
Las Fotos Project's Sister Circle invites you to join us for a presentation and an exhibition walkthrough of Memories That Make Home, Kimberly Espinosa’s residency exhibition, followed by a conversation on storytelling and ethics of the oral history process. The conversation will feature Katherine Yungmee Kim, the Program Director of the Koreatown Storytelling Program.
Finding connections across generations and expression through visual mediums can provide ways for individuals to use photography as a tool to heal and empower. By reflecting on the past, present, and future we can begin identifying stories that have been erased, displaced, or made invisible. Taking inspiration from our Spring 2022 Digital Promotoras: Homeland exhibition, we welcome guests to consider the value of recording oral histories and maintaining these stories for future generations. The conversation will include basic training on recording interviews and a process for preserving stories will be provided with a focus on the idea that anyone can be a storyteller. The evening will conclude with a Q&A.
About Kimberly Espinosa
Kimberly Espinosa (she/lebe’) is a Zapotec community organizer and photojournalist from Koreatown, Los Angeles. Their work highlights connections to family history, youth culture, and community solidarity.
Growing up in a community where storytelling exists as a prominent method of preserving ancestral knowledge, she understands the importance of practicing this in the work she documents. During her high school experience, Kimberly was a student with Las Fotos Project and the Koreatown Storytelling Program. She developed intergenerational interviews along with photographs of community members who spoke about their hometown memories, experiences as part of the working class, and their dreams for a better world. This fall, Kimberly will be attending Northwestern University as a first-year student in the Medill School of Journalism.
About Katherine Yungmee Kim
Katherine Yungmee Kim, a writer, educator and journalist based in Los Angeles, California, was raised in the U.S. and South Korea. She is the Program Director of the Koreatown Storytelling Program, an intergenerational, multilingual and multiethnic oral history and digital media program that teaches ethnographic and storytelling techniques to high school students and elders to investigate cultural practices and racial, economic and health inequities in our community. KSP is a project of the Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC), a multiservice nonprofit that has served the limited-income immigrant population of Koreatown since 1975. She is the author of Los Angeles’s Koreatown (Arcadia Publishing, 2010), Longitude (Datz Press, 2021) and most recently, wrote an introduction for Emanuel Hahn’s Koreatown Dreaming (2022).
Event Details
Thursday, August 25, 2022
7 pm - 9 pm
Las Fotos Project
2210 East Cesar E Chavez Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90033
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Masks are required.