Sanaa Lee
Photography BA Hons
University of the West of England Bristol
Specialisms: Photography
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Sanaa Lee
First Name: Sanaa
Last Name: Lee
Specialisms: Photography
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My Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
University / College: University of the West of England Bristol
Course / Program Title: Photography BA Hons
About
I am a visual artist based in London and Bristol with a focus in documentary and staged portraiture. My work draws together community and narrative, exploring how cultural identity is held and expressed in lived environments
Ornament draws together community and narrative, exploring how cultural identity is held and expressed within lived environments. The project began from Anne Anlin Cheng’s theory of ornamentalism, examining how Asian femininity has historically been framed through aesthetics, with Asian women often objectified as decoration or represented as the Other. Approaching these ideas personally, the work responds to cultural identity and ongoing stereotypes. Everyone photographed is either family or a close friend, photographed in familiar spaces. Growing up in the UK, my experience has been shaped by my Chinese-Vietnamese family and the journey that brought them here, after my mother’s family left Vietnam in the late 1970s.