We've been talking about it for months, our collaboration with Alex Harris from the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, but this week, it's finally off and running. Alex and I made our first trip to the Rocky Mount/Wilson are on Monday and Tuesday. We met some amazing people. Special thanks to Stewart Mitchell at the Golden Leaf Apartments, Rocky Mount City Council Members Reuben Blackwell and Andre White and Rocky Mount native Pat Washington. The pictures will be posted soon. Below is some info about the project. Please let us know if you'd like to participate.
We’re working with Alex Harris, a professor from The Duke Center for Documentary Studies, on a photography project. 40 years ago, when he was an undergrad, he traveled across NC taking pictures of people living in substandard housing. He recently decided to do a retrospective on this work but wanted to insure today’s photographs could benefit a higher purpose. That’s when he reached out to the NC Housing Coalition.
We’re connecting him to our contacts and partners across the state to capture images of people still living in substandard housing today. This will help us, and our legislators, better understand the work that still needs to be done in regards to housing. He will also photograph families, seniors and persons with disabilities living in new affordable housing developments to help us better communicate to our legislators the benefits of investing in affordable housing. This is a two year project culminating in a traveling exhibit that will spend 2 weeks in the NC Legislature, and then tour the state’s key districts along with our strategic partners. This project holds the potential to completely reform how we, as a community, discuss housing. But, we need your help. We’ll be in touch soon to talk about Alex visiting your community and what you would like him to capture locally. Each agency will have access to the final photographs from their community to use in their own communications work.
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