“The Family Pictures kickoff activity was a fab ice breaker and I saw my fellow table mates and the people in the room with compassion, love, and humanity that we are […]
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What Can We Build in 2018? – 3 Conversations on Mental Health, Representation, and Family
“We have to figure out a new way of engaging in the family album, and for me it’s a tool to bring people together and to see our humanity, to […]
Shawn Walker: A Photographer’s Search for the Magic in Everyday Life
I had the pleasure of spending time with Shawn Walker in Ethiopia in 2015 for the Pan African Workshop, where he shared with me stories about his work over 5 […]
Telling Our Stories: Photographers of Spirit of Community with Thomas Allen Harris
Behind each family picture, there is a story — a story that is representative of the communities that each picture comes from. On Sunday January 21, 2018, join NAACP Image […]
No Holiday is Complete Without a Side of Family Photographs
While you put the finishing touches on your Holiday menu, do not forget to tell your friends and relatives to bring some family photographs with their sweet potato casserole. Holidays […]
Once (Now) Again by Lyle Ashton Harris at the 2017 Whitney Biennial!
Last March, I had the pleasure to join my brother, artist Lyle Ashton Harris at the the 2017 Whitney Biennial opening reception to celebrate his exhibition Once (Now) Again. Lyle Ashton Harris’s […]
Chance Meeting Leads To Beautiful Photo
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR) participant, Gail Ablow, got to have her own little DDFR moment in the dog park one day. See her story below! DDFR: Gail, You mentioned […]
Smuggled Family Album from the Holocaust Resurfaces
We stumbled across this article shortly after publishing a piece about another Jewish family that smuggled their album out of Nazi Germany in the 1930s by Amanda Herz. Unlike Amanda’s […]