I've been thinking a lot about social media lately, about why it feels particularly challenging for me lately. I think a lot of us—maybe most of us on Twitter—feel increasingly unseen and unheard. Social media offers at least the promise of a remedy for that. I think most people want to feel like their existence matters, that it has weight and importance. I think most people want the opportunity for their perspective or emotions to be noticed and given consideration.

This is an interesting article and while I'm personally a little conflicted about my name(s), I like the idea of taking pride in one's Asian name and of course support others doing so publicly.

https://twitter.com/thesusanito/status/1374751485691502593

For me, like Susan, my Japanese name (Kenji) is legally my middle name. I think of it as my Japanese name, but I have never felt comfortable going by that name. And, more to the point, no one has ever called me by that name, inside my family or out.

So... softly-lit portraits of serious-eyed children mixed with found domestic tableaux, laced through with symbols of mortality and ephemerality are exactly my aesthetic, which is to say that of course I love these images.

https://twitter.com/lenscratch/status/1373634121507823618

All of my biggest early influences were women looking at their own families: Elizabeth Fleming, Andi Schreiber, Sally Mann, etc. This is what made me a photographer.