Joy Yi

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Barry Farm (Legacy Project)
Location: Washington, D.C.
Nationality: Korean American
Biography: Joy is currently a video producer and editor at The Washington Post.
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Barry Farm (Legacy Project)
Copyright Joy Sharon Yi 2024
Date of Work Dec 2015 - Ongoing
Updated Nov 2018
Location Washington, D.C.
Topics Black and White, Civil Rights, Documentary, Film, Fine Art, gentrification, Minority, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Poverty, public housing, Racism, Reporting, urban renewal, Youth

America is facing an affordable housing crisis. In Washington, D.C., 47,000 families are on a closed waiting list to receive affordable housing. Some have waited over 25 years, yet affordable, public housing such as Barry Farm continues to be demolished. Today the neighborhood is set to be torn down and redeveloped into mixed-income housing under the 2005 New Communities Initiative, leaving resident families in limbo.


Barry Farm is a multimedia project that documents the impacts of D.C.'s gentrification and the thriving community Barry Farm residents have created for themselves despite their uncertain futures. The work here entitled Legacy Project is a portrait series documenting the last residents of Barry Farm through medium and large format film photography.


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