Jarod Lew is a Chinese American photographer based in Metro Detroit, Michigan. His photographs explore themes of identity, place, community and displacement. In 2012, Lew discovered that his mother was the fiancé of Vincent Chin who was murdered by two autoworkers in Highland Park, Michigan. The outcome of his death sparked the Asian American movement in 1982. Since this discovery, he has focused his attention on his identity as a Chinese American and trying to visually understand Asian-ness within the American landscape.
His photographs have been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Center for Photography Woodstock, Detroit Institute of Arts, Design Museum of London and Philharmonie de Paris. His clients include New Yorker, New York Times, Financial Times Weekend, GQ and NPR
