Frogtown: Photographs and Conversation in an Urban Neighborhood 
(1993 – 1995)

Wing Young Huie’s first major project in 1995 focused on Frogtown, one of the oldest neighborhoods in St. Paul and home to the largest Hmong community in Minnesota. After two years photographing the everyday realities of hundreds of residents, a groundbreaking outdoor exhibition was installed on a vacant grass lot in Frogtown, with 173 photographs mounted on Styrofoam panels and shrink wrapped in clear plastic. 

“Wing Young Huie’s book Frogtown is a penetrating social document with an important message that serves Minnesota’s history and that of our entire nation as well. It should be read and observed again and again.”

—Gordon Parks, photographer, author, poet, filmmaker, composer

Black and white photograph of a white boy and a black boy sitting beneath a tree with their bikes.
A young woman in white, hands something to a friend inside of a church
Black family on the front steps
A group of white men gathers with a young boy and their boa constrictors
black teenage girls writing in their notebooks
an old man in a wheelchair on the sidewalk next to a baby in a stroller
three young girls inside of a church dressed for first communion. The two girls on the ends clasp their hands in prayer, while the one in the middle looks bored.
children on a couch
an African-American family on a couch

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