This series emerged in the context of surging anti-Asian racism during the pandemic. Countering the xenophobic tendency to lump people together indistinguishably into target groups, Yoon individuates the members of the community portrayed in A Group of Sixty-Seven, bringing their front and back together in a single frame and putting the name of the sitter into the title of each photograph.

Made for the 25th anniversary of the earlier work, the series calls attention to the tradition of honorific portraiture in Korea and pays homage to the past. In a digital age of constant change, we forget the past, but history and cultural traditions are our anchors—they ground us. Is there a way to embrace tradition without resorting to nostalgia and a static notion of culture?

By attending to both contemporary and historical contexts, the portraits in Honouring A Group of Sixty-Seven assume a diasporic understanding of the role the past can play, now and for future generations.