Mia Nakano
Mia Nakano is an American photographer, filmmaker, educator, printer, activist, a founding editor of Hyphen magazine, and Project Director of the Visibility Project.[1]
Career[edit]
Mia co-founded Hyphen magazine in 2003 as the photo editor.[2] As of 2014, she launched the LGBT section of Hyphen.[3]
In 2007, Nakano travelled to Nepal for a photojournalism internship with the Kathmandu Post.[4][5] There, Nakano connected with the Blue Diamond Society, an LGBT organization, and collaborated with them to take photos of Nepal's LGBT community.
Visibility Project[edit]
Mia continued documenting LGBT communities once she returned to the United States through the Visibility Project. The Visibility Project is a collaboration with Hyphen Magazine.[6]
The Visibility Project has been exhibited at Ohio State University,[7] the Leeway Foundation in Philadelphia,[8] the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center's Asian-Latino Festival in 2013.[9]
Nakano was a panelist at Leeway Foundation's REVOLVE: An Art for Social Change Symposium.[10]
Her work has been featured in Colorlines, Kathmandu Post, Motherjones.com, DemocracyNow!, and freethehikers.org.[11]
In 2014, The Visibility Project collaborated with Hyphen Magazine to create LGBTQ Hyphen, the first LGBTQ-dedicated section in a nationwide and mainstream magazine.[12]
References[edit]
- ^ "Visibility Project Website". Retrieved 2014-10-19.
- ^ Gwendolyn. "The Academic Feminist: Summer at the archives with the Visibility Project". Feministing. Archived from the original on 2014-10-19. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
- ^ "Hyphen Magazine Blog". Retrieved 2014-10-19.
- ^ Hing, Julianne (July 2009). "Spotlight: Mia Nakano". Colorlines. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ Ochoa, Cecca (2013-09-10). "A Queer Aperture: Mia Nakano and the Visibility Project". Apogee.
- ^ "Mia Nakano and Hyphen Magazine".
- ^ "Mia Nakano's The Visibility Project". The Ohio State University. 2014-10-13.
- ^ Gwendolyn. "The Academic Feminist: Summer at the archives with the Visibility Project". Feministing. Archived from the original on 2014-10-19. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
- ^ "Smithsonian Art Intersections Exhibit". Smithsonian. Archived from the original on 2013-07-31. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
- ^ "Leeway Foundation: revolve an art for social change symposium". 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
- ^ "Visibility Project About the Contributors".
- ^ "LGBTQ Hyphen section highlights LGBTQ AAPI voices". June 24, 2014.