Katja Heinemann

DOCUMENTARY WORK: – chinatown youth culture

An exploration of Chinatown's youth culture – mostly street shooting, spanning the gamut from new immigrants to 1.5 generation and A(merican) B(orn) C(hinese) youths connecting with their roots. 

A personal project to photograph my chosen hometown, and to fall in love with New York all over again. More work from Chinatown here. 

  • Miss Angel Model Contest at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
  • After mass. Church of the Transfiguration.
  • Procession honoring the Ascension of the Virgin Mary, Church of the Transfiguration.
  • Beyond Chinatown: LaGuardia High School for the Arts seniors pose for prom pictures.
  • Little Italy's San Gennaro festival.
  • Members of GAPIMNY and Q-Wave groups for queer Asian American New Yorkers march in the Gay Pride Parade.
  • Year of the Snake: Chinatown Community Young Lions.
  • Five-year-old Jia Ying dances in her family's restaurant.
  • Emma Lazarus English language immersion high school graduates its first full class of seniors.
  • Easter baptism, Church of the Transfiguration.
  • Jazz Age music video shoot.
  • Miss Angel Model Contest at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
  • Miss Angel Model Contest at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
  • Vincent, guitarist of the band Chaos, proposes to his girlfriend at Echo Music Fest.
  • Echo Music Fest.
  • Hsu-nami performs at Echo Music Fest at DCTV.
  • Miss Angel Model Contest at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
  • Year of the Snake: Chinatown Community Young Lions.
  • Fashion shoot on Pell Street.
  • Miss Angel Model Contest at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
  • Miss Angel Model Contest at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
  • Miss Angel Model Contest at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
  • Miss Angel Model Contest at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
  • Second anniversary vigil for Private Danny Chen.
  • Hurricane Sandy aftermath: Day 1 of the blackout and teenagers are experiencing a serious case of cabin fever.
  • Year of the Horse: Chinatown Community Young Lions.
  • Thanksgiving is wedding day in Chinatown.
  • A bride is leaving an East Broadway beauty parlor ahead of her Thanksgiving wedding.
  • Waiting for the bride outside of a Division Street beauty parlor.
  • Thanksgiving is wedding day in Chinatown.
  • Thanksgiving weddings: bringing out the cards while waiting for the bride.
  • Year of the Horse: Chinatown Community Young Lions.
  • Year of the Horse: Chinatown Community Young Lions.
  • Handball courts in New York City's satellite Chinatown, Flushing, Queens.
  • Campaigning for Grace Meng, Flushing, Queens.
  • Thanksgiving wedding day, Division Street.
  • Year of the Horse: Chinatown Community Young Lions.
  • Year of the Horse: Chinatown Community Young Lions.
  • Year of the Horse: Chinatown Community Young Lions.
  • THE GRAYING OF AIDS
    • – stories from a graying pandemic | oral history archive
    • – graying of AIDS | portraits
    • – age is not a condom | bus shelter campaign
    • – well beyond HIV campaign
    • – about the project
  • COMMUNITY YOUTH MEDIA
    • – was geht?! magazine
    • – #bleibistan exhibit
    • – newsgroup afghanistan
  • DOCUMENTARY WORK
    • – the golden venture
    • – generation exile
    • – chinatown youth culture
    • – chinatown baby boomers
    • – on borrowed time | growing up with HIV
    • – americana | 1
    • – americana | 2
    • – world war 2 reloaded
    • – berlin | ostalgie at 20
    • – the hbo alzheimer's project
  • MULTIMEDIA
    • – standing up to stigma
    • – the graying of AIDS | multimedia documentary
    • – our family: made in india
    • – aging out of foster care
    • – world war 2 reloaded | teaser
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • – editorial | tearsheets
    • – institutional | ngo
    • – journey of hope | book
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