Gabriel Chiu’s melancholic new photo series, High and Dry, tells the story of Asian immigrants who uproot and move to the US every day
is considered to be one of the best romance films of the 2000s, though, ironically, there is hardly any romantic action in it at all. Set against the backdrop of Tokyo, Japan, the story follows two lonely American protagonists – fading middle-aged actor Bob Harris and college graduate Charlotte – who connect through their mutual alienation in a foreign land.
Chiu discovered photography after moving to New York to pursue a career in fashion, where he worked as a junior creative director at Needles while taking pictures of his own designs on the side. “I noticed people gravitated to the photos more than the actual clothes,” he says of the switch to photography. “I kind of just ran with it and fell in love with it.” After a stint interning for
, Chiu released his debut photo story at the start of this year – another reimagining of a cult American film with an all-Asian cast: this time, Larry Clark’s controversial 1990 movie,, a group of Asian American teens are captured letting loose in New York city – drinking, making out, smoking on subway trains and being sick in toilets. The series, he says, aimed to overturn “scholastic” and “conservative” stereotypes connected to Asian teens. “It’s important to present normality,” he says.
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