{"podcast":{"title":"PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - Photography Podcast","slug":"photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436","podcast_index_feed_id":403436,"rss_url":"https://pinecast.com/feed/photowork","website_url":"https://photowork.foundation","image_url":"https://storage.pinecast.net/podcasts/covers/357c49ad-dbf9-4d30-aa59-5d6eae73edc6/PhotoWork_Podcast_CoverA.JPG.jpg","author":"PhotoWork Foundation","episode_count":124,"summary":"Interviews with photographers, curators, and publishers on contemporary photography, photobooks, artistic practice, and the evolving landscape of fine art photography.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T00:19:01.892803+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436"},"episode":{"title":"Jarod Lew & Reagan Louie on Asian-American Identity and Its Shifting Photographic Language.","slug":"jarod-lew-reagan-louie-on-asian-american-identity-and-its-shifting-photographic-language","published_at":"2026-07-03T13:00:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436/jarod-lew-reagan-louie-on-asian-american-identity-and-its-shifting-photographic-language","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436","url":"https://photowork.foundation/reagan-louie-jarod-lew/","audio_url":"https://pinecast.com/listen/12126900-ba5c-44c8-8d56-eeffcb45256b.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3","summary":"Photographers Jarod Lew and Reagan Louie join PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf to discuss how they explore cultural identity, personal loss, and trauma through photography. Lew and Louie are Asian American photographers from different generations, and their work reflects how the exploration of cultural identity in contemporary photography has evolved over the decades. While Louie takes a documentary photography approach, Lew works through more conceptual constructs. Their conversation with Wolf highlights the visual differences between their practices while revealing striking resonances in how they discuss their approach. https://www.jarodlew.com https://www.reaganlouie.com Jarod Lew is an artist who draws on photography to explore intergenerational encounters with diasporic loss, displacement, and postmemory. Through this exploration, his work contends with the performativity of race and its instability as a locus of meaning. His project, Please Take Off Your Shoes was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2021, and was exhibited in a group exhibition at SFMOMA titled Kinship: Photography and Connection in 2023. His other project, In Between You and Your Shadow, examines his relationship with his mother, who was the fiancé of Vincent Chin--the subject of a hate-crime that brought national attention to matters of Asian American civil rights. In 2025, Lew will mount his first museum exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art titled- Strange You Never Knew. His works are held in public and private collections including the Cantor Art Center, Detroit Institute of Arts, Kadist, San Francisco, Harvard Art Museum, University of Michigan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lew’s work has been written about in Aperture, Artforum, Elephant M…","meta_description":"Photographers Jarod Lew and Reagan Louie join PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf to discuss how they explore cultural identity, personal loss, and trauma through p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3810,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436/episodes/jarod-lew-reagan-louie-on-asian-american-identity-and-its-shifting-photographic-language/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436/jarod-lew-reagan-louie-on-asian-american-identity-and-its-shifting-photographic-language.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}