- Date Of Birth: September 5, 1947
- Date Of Death: January 27, 2021
- Occupation: Activist, community organizer, photographer and journalist
Young Kwok “Corky” Lee (September 5, 1947 – January 27, 2021) was a Chinese American activist, community organizer, photographer, journalist. Lee was also the unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate. His work chronicled and explored the diversity and nuances of Asian American culture often ignored and overlooked by mainstream media and made sure Asian American history was included as a part of American history.
Lee died on January 27, 2021, at the Long Island Jewish Hospital in Forest Hills. He was 73, and suffered from complications of COVID-19 in the time leading up to his death. – Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License from Wikipedia.
