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No Holiday is Complete Without a Side of Family Photographs
Happy Holidays from Thomas Allen Harris & the Family Pictures USA team!
We created an easy guide to use for a fun photo sharing family activity during the holidays. Every family has a Story and these tools will help you discover YOUR Family History! Click to read more in our blog!
Creator and Host Thomas Allen Harris Invites YOU to Join & Follow our Indiegogo Campaign Today!
Family Pictures USA explores neighborhoods & cities through the lens of the family photo album. We are raising funds to help bring these amazing photo-stories to public television! Our pilot series kicks off in Detroit, where we interviewed HUNDREDS of families and gathered THOUSANDS of photographs. We have an URGENT need for $35,000 by the end of December to get us in the edit room to complete our 1 Hour pilot for National Broadcast in 2018!
Family Pictures USA emerged out of Digital Diaspora Family Reunion LLC (DDFR), a transmedia community engagement project which has built and refined a community photo sharing model that uses photography, film, live events, social media, and storytelling to expand on family histories.
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris examines how photography has affected the lives of black Americans.
Read below and/or click the link to my review on Bold As Love Magazine
There’s a feeling that you get from a photograph.
Multiple feelings. These stem from emotional or physical connections to the subject, to the setting, angle, tone, imagination, and even size of the photo. This is regardless of it being from 100 years ago or one day ago, on paper or on a digital screen. Yet, one can imagine that for most people it is how the photo reflects who you are that brings the most distinct feelings. However, when dealing with the African-American and African diaspora, the problem is that the way many of us perceive ourselves is defined by the hegemonic forces of colonialism and post-colonial means of control – done in its strongest negative form through the image.
Combating those negative portrayals is the family album – a piece of home that, if one is fortunate enough to have a keeper of those images, shows you the good and bad of who you are and where you come from, and can even lay groundwork toward the answers you may need about where you need to go in life. My father, I am proud to say, is that keeper of images for my huge family, but for director Thomas Allen Harris it was his maternal grandfather, Albert Sydney Johnson, Jr. who did so and inspired both he and his multi-discipline artist brother Lyle Ashton Harris to understand the power of making and sharing images and the pride that one can develop from doing so.
Who would make visible the invisible?” – Thomas Allen Harris
In his latest documentary, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, Harris traces his family legacy once more (as he did in his first two films) to frame how Black photographers wrestle with double-consciousness and the ‘otherness’ of Western life while creating their images, and traces the history behind Black images in history and popular culture to show the troubling ways the Black body has been used as a commodity in American society.
(please click the link to read the rest of the review...)
http://www.boldaslove.us/2014/08/20/review-through-a-lens-darkly-black-photographers-and-the-emergence-of-a-people/
