Frédéric Bellay
Amy Chang
Mark Curran
Corinne Vionnet




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Since international adoption was permitted in 1991, Spain has become the second country in the world in transnational adoptions (in absolute terms), ranking much higher than many countries that have a larger population or GDP, with only the US ahead as the leading country. Although countries of origin are diverse, from Eastern Europe to Latin America to Ethiopa, adoption of Chinese girls is unprecedented. (In China, girls are often given up for adoption, a consequence of China's One Child Policy and a culturally-ingrained preference for boys.) China is the number one origin country for Spanish international adoptions.

"Hyphenated-Identities" considers how these adopted Chinese children will identify themselves as they grow older. Raised in Spanish families with little or no contact with their birth country, will they simply consider themselves Spaniards? Or will their ethnic traits and the perception that outsiders have of them cause them to embrace dual heritages, or hyphenated identities, stemming from their birth and adoption?

(Taipei, Taiwan, 1977). Amy is from Houston, Texas where she completed her university degrees. She has also lived in San Francisco, Paris and has lived in Madrid since 2003. She had her first contact with photography when she was studying her B.A. in Sociology. She completed her Masters in public affairs and photojournalism, and then continued her photography studies in Paris and Madrid.

Her photographs are part of private and public collections: Madrid’s Contemporary Art Museum, the Colegio de España in Paris, Tenerife’s Center of Photography and the Madrid’s Fundación Canal. She has had solo exhibits in FotoNoviembre, the Colegio de España as part of the Mois de la Photo-OFF festival and FotoEncuentros. She has participated in collective exhibits in PhotoEspaña (Fundación Canal) and Madrid’s Contemporary Art Museum (Artistas y Fotógrafos: Imágenes para una colección).