by DON PERRY All my life, people have looked at me with confusion, their eyes filled with questions, Who are your people? What’s your background? When I travel to the […]
Archive | Digital Diaspora
Mining the Family Photo Archive
For the past 15 years, I have been making documentary films that mined my family and extended African Diasporic family archive to create compelling stories that illuminate the intersections of […]
Grace Ali’s Guyana Family Photo Archive
Grace Ali heard about DDFR from a friend and fellow journalist Pamela Newkirk (who had participated in one of the DDFR Roadshows at the Brooklyn Public Library last year with […]
DDFR Comes to Harlem Stage
DDFR Roadshow Comes to Harlem February 2011 Bring your Family Photo Album to life with award-winning documentary filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris through his interactive DDFR Roadshow (DDFR.TV), a […]
My Grandfather The War Hero
Albert Sidney Johnson (1880 – 1947) was born in Lexington Virginia, the eldest of five children. Both of his parents had been born into slavery. His father, James, worked as […]
DDFR Pierre Thiam @ Brooklyn
Pierre Thiam, chef at the Senegalese restaurant Le Grand Dakar, reminisces while displaying his family photographs with Thomas in his home and at the DDFR road show in Brooklyn, NY. […]
DDFR @ Atlanta
On Saturday February 21st, Thomas Allen Harris delivered the final program of the Integrated Media Association – Public Media Conference held at the West Peachtree Plaza in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. […]
INTRODUCING: Digital Diaspora Family Reunion
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion is a touring Roadshow that travels across the African Diaspora to uncover the hidden treasures in family photographic archive. Individuals are invited to explore the rich […]
COMMUNITY: Lolita Parker Jr
Photographer Lolita Parker undertakes a journey through her family photo albums and makes several revealing discoveries that change her perspective on the past and on her immediate family.
DDFR WORLD
A journey through the world of DDFR and some of the families and friends we have encountered and embraced along the way.