Stephanie Cheng: Taking back agency and control over our narratives Teh Time

Stephanie Cheng is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York and Beijing. Her early immersions in different cultural narratives inform her ongoing practice in photography and filmmaking. Stephanie's work examines cross-cultural dimensions within feminism and race, as she continues to explore the evolving representation of female sexuality and power across many genres. Her visual narratives not only seek to reproduce reflections of the world we live in, but also imagine an entirely different one. Stephanie received her B.F.A. in Film and Television from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and completed her Master’s in Visual, Museum, and Material Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Together, Steph and I try to process the devastating events of the last few weeks. We talk about the challenges of navigating the world as Asian women, of being robbed of our agency by the white patriarchy, and of being hyper sexualized and fetishized. We also discuss Steph’s works and how they strive to centre bipoc women, challenging harmful stereotypes, through nuanced storytelling.