“Maybe I will define family by what I believe it’s not. I don’t think that family is conditional to being related by blood. I don’t think family needs to be […]
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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 […]
Just Beyond the River: A Folktale Exhibition
Just Beyond the River features selections from Daesha Devón Harris’ series of mixed media pieces, made using a personal collection of unidentified, discarded Victorian-era portraits. In production over multiple years, throughout […]
Art & Incarceration: A Panel Discussion
Most prisons and jails across the United States do not allow prisoners to have access to cameras. At a moment when 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the US, 3.8 […]
Celebrating St. Clair Bourne at the Metrograph
In honor of his 75th birthday, Metrograph pays tribute to St. Clair Bourne, Harlem-born and Brooklyn-bred filmmaker, writer, activist, teacher, and organizer. Screenings include selections from a career dedicated to […]
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 […]
Coal, War and Love: A Family Memoir
By Rudean Leinaeng She was beautiful, cultured, and clairvoyant–the pampered daughter of a middle-class colored family; he was handsome and hard-nosed – a laborer with little formal education. How they […]
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 […]
Creating Art from the Archives: “About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer”
Thomas Allen Harris looks back at 28 years of HIV/AIDS activism in newly released short film, “About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer.” On World AIDS Day 2017, Visual […]
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 […]