
Spring 2020
Ten Years of the Trans Asia Photography Review
Notes from the Field
Field Notes
Wuhan’s Family Photographs
Laura Wexler
“Film und Foto” Redux in Japan’s 2010s
Shota T. Ogawa
Orientalism and the Politics of Photographic Representation
Ali Behdad
The Middle Ground of Early Chinese Photography
Anthony W. Lee
A Western Bibliomania for Japanese Photobooks
Russet Lederman
Platforms
Contemporary Photography Magazines in Korea and Taiwan: Vostok and Voices of Photography in Context
Jeehey Kim
Matca: Creating Conversations around Photography in Vietnam
Ha Dao
PIX: Photography and Critical Thought in South Asia
Rahaab Allana
PannaFoto Institute: Teaching Photography and Building Communities in Indonesia
Zhuang Wubin
Drik Picture Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Conversation with Shahidul Alam
Deepali Dewan
Photography Institutions Burgeoning in China
Chen Shuxia
Curatorial Projects
PHOTODEMOS – Citizens of Photography: the Camera and the Political Imagination
Christopher Pinney, Sokphea Young and Vindhya Buthpitiya
A Fragile Past: Exploring One Family’s Narrative Through the Photographs They Buried
Charles Fox
Surface Tension: Hong Kong Photographs in Wei Leng Tay’s Abridge Project
Olivier Krischer
Being in the World
Jamie Maxtone-Graham
The Creative Distractions of Manobina Roy
Sabeena Gadihoke
Book Reviews
Karen Strassler, Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia
Reviewed by Veronika Kusumaryati
Teresa Eng, China Dream
Reviewed by Sebastian C. Galbo
Terry Bennett, Early Photography in Vietnam
Reviewed by Thy Phu
Edward Stokes, Marjorie Doggett’s Singapore: A Photographic Record
Reviewed by James McArdle