Wing Young Huie
Chinese American, b. 1955
Family on Front Steps, Frogtown, St. Paul, MN (1993-1995), printed in 2025
Inkjet print
© 1993-1995 Wing Young Huie
Everyday life resonates with beauty in Wing Young Huie’s documentary style photography. This candid family portrait is part of a series documenting daily life of Frogtown neighborhood residents in St. Paul, Minnesota. Family and friends gathered on a front porch evolve into an enduring moment captured; the arrangement of figures in a triangular compositional structure elegantly recalls Italian Renaissance masterworks. Their interconnected gestures—embracing, holding, reaching and leaning—guide our eye from one figure to the next. The man standing in the doorway is the apex of this graceful pyramid, and the young woman joyfully lifting a baby overhead provides a compelling central focal point. Huie brings illuminating perspective to the enduring rhythm of life.