our kind of people
Created by Bayeté Ross Smith
Co-produced by FOTODEMIC
A platform for challenging bias, promoting social equity, and fostering community.
Our Kind of People examines perception based on appearance and deconstructs how clothing, race, gender, and class signifiers affect our daily interactions and social systems. To do this, Our Kind of People uses images and stories created in collaboration with everyday people from across the globe.
Created by interdisciplinary artist and educator Bayeté Ross Smith, and co-produced with FOTODEMIC, Our Kind of People is an ongoing series of images, videos, and stories that create nuanced and sophisticated conversations and reflections about how identity affects our daily lives. This awareness and analysis will become a tool for challenging bias, facilitating education, and promoting social justice. These images and stories will engage audiences via social media and ongoing publications to our web platform ourkindofpeople.org, that will be accompanied by workshops, physical and virtual events, implicit social cognition tests, and analysis of this research. All of which will be tools to improve cultural competency and facilitate mutual understanding.
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what’s at stake
The Vote Project
In 2016, 100 million eligible voters in the United States did not cast a vote. With this feature, we are hoping to inspire people to wield the most powerful tool of a democracy and work towards improving our political system.
All those eligible to vote in the United States owe it to ourselves, to those who cannot vote, and to the rest of the world affected by our government’s decisions, to select those we feel can best lead us forward.
The postcards presented in this feature highlight critical social issues that need to be considered before this election. It is an attempt to break through the haze of “alternative facts” and “post-truth” and confront some of the extraordinary challenges that are at stake. We hope that this feature provokes people to discuss, and to act.
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TRUTH, THE FIRST CASUALTY - PART II
by Stephen Mayes
Conflict photography considered as bellwether for a dawning understanding
of digital imagery as a new medium - by Stephen Mayes
What makes “a photograph” a photograph? Is the digital image a missed opportunity or a threat to our notion of truth? How has the digital revolution impacted conflict coverage? This two-part essay re-evaluates the anachronous perception of digital imagery as analogue photography. Mayes confronts the language and visual strategies used for the computational medium and questions the meaning of truth in the age of the numerical image.
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TRUTH, THE FIRST CASUALTY - PART I
by Stephen Mayes
Conflict photography considered as bellwether for a dawning understanding
of digital imagery as a new medium - by Stephen Mayes
What makes “a photograph” a photograph? Is the digital image a missed opportunity or a threat to our notion of truth? How has the digital revolution impacted conflict coverage? This two-part essay re-evaluates the anachronous perception of digital imagery as analogue photography. Mayes confronts the language and visual strategies used for the computational medium and questions the meaning of truth in the age of the numerical image.
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FORGET-ME-NOT
by Keiji Fujimoto
Forget-me-not explores the personal story of artist Keiji Fujimoto’s experience finding his place as a gay man in Japan. Through the use of archival images, drawings, paintings, and photographs made in Japan, Kenya and Uganda, Fujimoto finds commonalities between his experience in his home country and those of gay men in Kenya and Uganda—experiences marked by social isolation and solitude.
2 DE JUNIO, 2018 - 3 DE ABRIL, 2020
by Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez
Essay by Rafaella Castagnola
