About

Documenting current movements to inform more equitable futures.
Joyce Y. T. Mak is a documentary photographer and digital archivist focusing on racial, health and healing justice.
By documenting initiatives that inspire tangible actions to be made on pressing issues affecting communities of marginalised identities, they work closely with fellow community organisers, producers in cultural institutions and writers to reflect experiences beyond one’s marginalisation. They approach photography as a reflexive and relational practice, with the potential to become its own form of care beyond our differences.
They facilitate regular community gatherings in nature, as well as develop peer-led approaches to participatory research and digital archiving.
Commissions & Features


British Vogue | Forces for Change: How ESEA Sisters Found Community Amid A Wave Of Anti-Asian Hate

Father/Daughter Records | mui zyu East Asia Tour - Clockenflap Music Festival

The Common Press | Book Launch for The Mollusc Dimension's autobiographical memoir "The Weird & Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse"

The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network | Launch of "Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All"

ESEA Sisters in Nature | Surrey Three Peaks community fundraiser

Anamot Press | "In the Back of My Throat" Anthology Launch at Brixton Library

The Coast is Queer | Poetic Nature Walk: Strolling in Language, in collaboration with Anamot Press, Tilted Axis Press and ESEA Sisters

An Viet Archives | Archive Lab: “How do we remember” as part of the ESEA Community Centre’s Creative Workshops Programme 

Museum of the Home | Uncovering Vietnamese Archives with Resident Artist Dora Lam

Trippin | ESEA Sisters on How Water Can Connect Us Spiritually

ESEA Sisters | 2022 Summer Festival & Fundraiser

Southbank Centre | Joyride: A Night of Revelry

TOKEN Magazine | Tales from the City: Launch Party at Isla Ray

Swilipino | Sunday Brunch: Popup at MNTD

Bow Arts | Second Nature: Imagining Climate Futures with Green Lions

gal-dem | 12 POC-run supper clubs you need to join in 2023

ESEA Life Drawing | Debut Session at Peckham Levels

RebelStudio | Osteopathy Offering

Small Tune Press | Zinesters Gathering

Studio Voltaire | Looking Out: Looking In, A Weekend of Sharing & Caring with Zine Coop

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