In Movement: A Legacy of AANHPI Athletesdraws from the Visual Communications Photographic Archive to present photographs of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) athletes across the past half century of American sports. Spanning martial arts, court sports, water sports, and cultural dances, the images spotlight communities and disciplines across several decades. What connects them is a history that mainstream sports has often overlooked.

Drawing from the VC Archives, one of the nation’s most comprehensive repositories of twentieth century Asian Pacific American life,
In Movement brings together photographs captured by community photographers, documentarians, and Visual Communications staff. From Olympic arenas and neighborhood softball fields to incarceration camps and community halls, each image is a story of resilience and identity across a half century of AANHPI life. Each photograph is carefully curated and accompanied by a caption describing its significance in AANHPI history.

The stories here are about more than sport.

They are about belonging, about who gets to take up space, about communities that built their own leagues and tournaments and programs when the door was closed to them.

In Movement is located at the Henry P. Rio Bridge Gallery at City Hall and is open from May 1-31, 2026, and is presented as part of Visual Communications’ ongoing commitment to the preservation and presentation of AANHPI cultural history.