A Utah-based coalition, the Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Project, brought about 200 Chinese Americans, Chinese citizens and other Asian American friends, including several descendants of railroad workers, to Promontory Summit, Utah, on the 145th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. There they recreated the iconic photograph of the meeting of the two locomotives in what New York City photographer Corky Lee explained was “an act of photographic justice” by representing those who were invisible in the original photo.
May 2014: “A ‘photographic act of justice’ for Chinese laborers at Golden Spike” (The Salt Lake Tribune)
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