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Corky Lee was a Chinese is a Chinese American activist, community organiser, photographer, journalist, and the self-proclaimed unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate.
He was born on September 5, 1947 in Queens, New York City, United States of America and attended Jamaica High School before going on to study American history at Queens College in 1965.
Growing up, Corky Lee taught himself photography and went by borrowing cameras because he could not afford his own.
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His photographs documented the daily lives of Asian Americans as well as historical moments in American history.
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Lee said his camera was a sword to combat racial injustice, to memorialize and make visible those who would otherwise be invisible by documenting the lives of minority-American cultures and communities.
Who are Corky Lee parents ?
Corky Lee parents is one of the interesting aspects of him that many have been asking about. He was born to Lee Yin Chuck, his father and Jung See Lee, his mother who are both immigrants from China to the United States of America.
Lee is the second child of his parents, he had an older sister called Fee and three younger brothers called John, James, and Richard.
His father, Lee Yin Chuck served in the US Army in World War II, owned a laundry and his mother, Jung See Lee was a seamstress.
