Healing from hate
This story, which is about my community in my hometown, is one of the most difficult but meaningful pieces that I’ve worked on.
Asians and Asian Americans in Columbia, Missouri, reflect on the Atlanta spa shootings one year later. This package was put together by women of Asian descent.
2022
Client: Vox Magazine, KBIA
CD: Makalah Hardy
AD, Photo Illustration: Moy Zhong
Text: Cela Migan
Photo: Amy Schaffer
Audio KBIA — One Year Later:
A reporter reflects on the Atlanta spa shootings and anti-Asian violence
A reporter reflects on the Atlanta spa shootings and anti-Asian violence
Page Design
Each photo is a collage of a portrait of an interviewee in present-day with a “slice” interrupting them. Each photo in the present is taken in a location where each interviewee remembers on having felt different for their race; the photo that interjects their portrait reflects a person or place that they were reminded of following the Atlanta spa shootings.