by Aundre

How does your sense of "home" frame your identity? Your ability to love? Your fear of displacement? I created this project during the Adobe Creative Residency as a visual study of how our sense of place impacts us.

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Think of the people you see every day at work, at the gym and in your neighborhood. Do you often encounter a diversity of thought, wealth or ethnicity? 

Turns out that we already self-select socioeconomically by where we can afford to shop, live and who we work with. And according to the American Value Atlas, we racially self-select as well [white, black and latinx groups average a majority of friends of the same ethnicity.]

How does this affect our ability to understand, tolerate and compromise?
Stories from here is a project created to ask, what happens when I have to listen? What does a complete portrait of a stranger look like?

Thanks to the Adobe Creative Residency, I have had the pleasure of traveling across America to document our nations micro-stories. These stories, mixed with the macro factors of our physical location, build a window into what makes a person and validates our experience. 

My goal at the conclusion of this project is to have a library of immersive portraits that challenge the cycle of giving exclusive visibility (seeing and listening) to those we've already deemed worthy.

Client: Adobe Creative Cloud for Residency

Duties: Photography, Art Direction, Copy, Videography, Research, Production, Interviewing.

Deliverables: editorial style interview pages, photos, audio pulls, video portraits. website: www.storiesfromhere.com. Gallery event.