Syed Yaqeen

Syed Yaqeen is a documentary and editorial photographer and founder of American Muslim Experience, a long-term photo-documentary project about the lives and diversity of Muslims in the United States. He also works as a creative director, producer, picture editor, and photography instructor.

Culture Care Offers an Alternative to the Zero-Sum Logic of Culture War

Artist Makoto Fujimura argues that culture should be tended rather than treated as territory in a fight for power—a practice he calls culture care. In a conversation with documentary filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson, the two consider how art and film can make room for complexity. Hinson describes the challenge of making a documentary about missionary Elisabeth Elliot that neither reduces her to a hero nor turns her into an indictment.

The Aspen InstituteSep 29, 202612 min read