The transformation of New York’s Chinatown in the 1980s – The Washington Post

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Perspective | The transformation of New York’s Chinatown in the 1980s

Robert Glick documented New York’s Chinatown as it transformed from a primarily older, male population to a generation of young families.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/03/24/the-transformation-of-new-yorks-chinatown-in-the-1980s/

Robert Glick believes, “When we do documentary photography, we establish a permanent bond with those we photograph and the community in which we work.” In the early 1980s, Glick was working as a photographer for the New York Chinatown History Project, which is now the Museum of Chinese in America. The goal of his work was to document the community as it transformed from an primarily older, male population to a generation of young families due to rapidly expanding immigration