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Corky Lee's quest for "photographic justice"

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Corky Lee was a self-taught photojournalist who chronicled the Asian communities of America .

His passion for "photographic justice" was sparked in his teens when he saw the iconic 1869 photograph of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad that excluded Chinese workers.

His photography was compelling evidence that Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander descent were not "eternal foreigners," but integral to American society.