We traveled to the historic Rocky Mount Mills in North Carolina to collect local family photographs and stories with our local partner UNC-TV for our new PBS television series, Family […]
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Transforming the Family Album at Detroit’s 2018 AMC
Every year, thousands of media-makers, organizers, and agents for social change converge in Detroit for the Allied Media Conference (AMC): a 4-day, volunteer-coordinated conference that hosts hundreds of sessions focused […]
Re-Imagining the Family Album at Hunter College!
These are my student’s testimonies from two-day seminar, Re-Imagining the Family Album with me at Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts Program for the Masters in Fine Arts students. ……………………………………………….. “As I […]
Small Talk with Mark S. Lee with Guest Don Perry
On Sunday January 14, my Executive Producer/writer of Family Pictures USA, Don Perry joined the weekly CBS Radio podcast, “Small Talk with Mark S. Lee” along with other guests: Kurt Rankin, […]
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 […]
YOU Can Help Bring Family Pictures USA to National Broadcast!
Join Our Crowdfunding Campaign to Complete the Pilot of Family Pictures USA! “Once you see America through family pictures, you will never see this country the same way again.” Family […]
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 […]
Memoirs of a Father with Philip Rosenbaum
“Producing a five minute video about my father and how he survived the Holocaust was an experience I will forever cherish. The idea came to me on the first day […]
Distinguished Detroiters: The Barthwell Family History
The story below has been shared with Family Pictures USA by Dr. Akosua Barthwell Evans about the many accomplishments of her family members despite the racial adversity they faced. “My family has […]
The Bruschitzkis of Linzee Street: Building Detroit Brick by Brick
This summer, Detroiter, Bonnie Schow shared her family story with Family Pictures USA. Read below to learn more about her incredible family. “My great-great-grandfather, Julius Bruschitzki came to Detroit in 1881. […]