Lee Yee Photography

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"Lee Yee's subject is all of New York. Fifth Avenue, the strivers, street detritus to a rural glade. People in transit, laundry drying, a museum preview. She's an astute sightseer, a crafty visual reporter. The new art journalist." --Jason Ferrara, Italian Vogue

St. Stephens Girls College, Hong Kong
San Francisco State University - Photography
S.F. Art Institute - BFA Printmaking
School of Visual Arts NewYork - Painting
New York University - Computer Imaging

I see my photos as an ongoing graphic novel of New York; a novel always in process, always expanding. I'm a documentarist in spirit, but unwed to one visual style. I borrow, adapt: Bauhaus to tourist snaps. In the end, though, it's about my encounters with the city's amazing subject matter, polyglot, multifarious and disordered, like New York itself. I'm basically a walker, a passerby. Neither journalist nor artist.
--Lee Yee, New York, 2016