# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/corky-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:04:04.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/corky-lee"
name: "Corky Lee"
slug: "corky-lee"
description: "Young Corky Lee was a Chinese-American activist, community organizer, photographer, journalist, and the self-proclaimed unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate. He called himself an \"ABC from NYC ... wielding a camera to slay injustices against APAs.\" His work chronicled and explored the diversity and nuances of Asian American culture often ignored and overlooked by mainstream media, striving to make Asian American history a part of American history."
tagline: "American photographer (1947–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Corky_Lee_at_the_Chinese_American_Museum_DC_in_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1947-09-05"
deathDate: "2021-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.64
  momentum:             0.7758620689655172
  historical:           8.552377333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "كوركي لي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_Lee"
    title: "Corky Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_Lee"
    title: "Corky Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_Lee"
    title: "Corky Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "کورکی لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_Lee"
    title: "Corky Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_Lee"
    title: "Corky Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_Lee"
    title: "Corky Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%89%AC%E5%9B%BD"
    title: "李扬国"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16842006"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump