Answers Without Words, a photography project, fosters creative dialogue between incarcerated artists in Oregon and photographers from around the world SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 by HANNAH KRAFCIK (original post here) I am watching a group of men set a scene to be photographed. Ben Turanski, one of the prisoners at Columbia River Correctional… Continue reading
How do you describe your culture, your nation? Would you describe it differently to someone overseas? Would you describe it differently to someone in prison overseas? What if that prisoner overseas asked you not to use words but to use images in your response? These are not hypothetical questions, at… Continue reading
Julie Keefe’s Hello, Neighbor project. What happens to neighborhoods when your neighbors aren’t your neighbors any more? When interviewed about his rapidly changing North Portland community, my neighbor, Charles, said he didn’t mind the streets being safer, the businesses returning, or the houses being fixed up. What he did mind… Continue reading