AJA

Where can we find history? It’s not always in the archives or written in history books. Our history is often passed on through memories. Then where can we find memories?

Little saigon stories  is a community arts program facilitated by Media Arts Center San Diego, the AjA Project, with the help of the El Cajon Boulevard Business Improvement Association and

Story+Line (Collaboration w/ The AjA Project, Josemar Gonzales) Each wood pieces were photographs transferred by AJA workshop participants. Wood, Metal / 3mx3mx4m @New American Museum, San Diego, USA 2015

City Heights Mural (collaboration w/ The AJA Project, Senem Goctu) 1200 Tile baked with photographs from 10 years of AJA workshops in City Heights, and east San Diego @ City

Under+Stand (w/ The AJA Project) 11m x 44m, Vinyl Adhesives @ fomer Naval Training Center, San Diego, CA, 2009

Partipatory photography project in which refugees from refugee camps in Thailand/Burma borders were given cameras to document their settlement process to Norway. Collaboration with The AjA Project, and Record of

In+Grain (w/ The AjA Project) 60 photogrphas in large format taken by immigrant and refugee youth, exhibited through out southeastern San Diego. @Southeastern San Diego, 2007

Summary of RoT (Record of Truth) project activities and results between 2001 – 2006 Since 2001 until 2012, RoT project was active in Karen refugee camps outside of Mae Sariang,

Re+Collect (w/ The AJA Project) Photographs and stories by Refugee youth in San Diego @San Diego Museum of Art, 2006

Inter+Section (w/ The AJA Project) 100 photographs and stories in Somali, Vietnamese and Spanish all made by refugee youth, exhibited along the University Avenue’s 1.5 miles stretch. @City Heights /