The Hapa Me Project is a follow-up — fifteen years later — to Kip Fulbeck’s groundbreaking exploration of multiracial identity. In the first phase, he photographed hundreds of people who identified as hapa (a Hawaiian term often used for those with mixed heritage, especially part Asian or Pacific Islander) and asked each person to handwrite their own self-description.

Fifteen years later, he returned to the same individuals. He photographed them again in the same simple, direct style and invited them to reflect once more on who they were. The power of the project lies in this double portrait: bodies change, identities shift, and the way someone defines themselves evolves with time.

The result feels like a small living archive of hybrid identity — a reminder that who we are is always in motion, shaped by culture, memory, community, and self-understanding. It’s a project about faces, but also about time, belonging, and the many ways of being more than one thing at once.

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