File:Sheila Pinkel Kou and family 1992.jpg

Photographic work by Sheila Pinkel, Kou Chang and Family, Chiang Kham Detention Camp, Thailand (from "Indochina Document" series, inkjet print, 16" x 20", 1992). The image illustrates a key shift and body of work in Sheila Pinkel's career beginning in the 1990s, when she turned to documentary work exploring the experiences of disenfranchised groups in longitudinal, multifaceted projects about history, trauma, cultural loss and survival. This image comes from her Remember Cambodia series (part of the larger "Indochina Document"), which featured grids of everyday, color photographs and text documenting humble, contemporary Hmong refugees in Thailand and Los Angeles and their search for home, belonging, and a better life. This series of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications.

Artist Sheila Pinkel. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating an mid-career period and body of work in Sheila Pinkel's work that began in the 1990s: her turn to also extended her scope to documentary work, exploring the experiences of disenfranchised groups from Cambodian refugees to American garment workers to the early Tongvan people in longitudinal, multifaceted projects detailing narratives of history, trauma, cultural loss and survival. This work includes large photographic grids and images, journals and letters, albums, recordings and video directly addressing genocide and trauma and their effects on spiritual growth, wisdom and cultural heritage. Most of this work is contained in Pinkel's "Indochina Document," which includes her major Remember Cambodia and Hmong in Transition series. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this important shift in her art, which brought ongoing recognition from art journals, daily press publications, and art institutions. Pinkel's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Sheila Pinkel, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.