"REFLECTIONS ON RACE"
A video by Derek Burrows - Coming Soon
A video by Derek Burrows - Coming Soon
"Reflections on Race" is part
of the Mirror of Race project, an investigation into how
we see race in the United States. This project presents portraits from
the very earliest period of photography in the United States, starting
in 1840 (daguerreoptypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite),
to challenge viewers to examine how they perceive race.
"Reflections on Race" offers a series of interwoven interviews in which viewers describe their reactions to and answer questions about individual images in the project. Interviewees are encouraged to interpret the images and to construct stories about their meaning.
The stories they tell serve as a mirror to reflect back to themselves their thoughts and feelings about the "other," both historically and now, as they experience the other today. How do we understand and change our feelings regarding the other in our history, in our private lives, and in our community?
Before we can overcome the divisions engendered by the perception of difference and otherness, we have to understand and accept how we make sense of how we perceive others and, at the same time, ourselves.
Further videos will include a number of interviews, discussions, and performance pieces that begin as meditations on specific images and that evolve to challenge the audience to reflect upon its own ways of seeing and interpreting the other.
Derek Burrows, August 2009
"Reflections on Race" offers a series of interwoven interviews in which viewers describe their reactions to and answer questions about individual images in the project. Interviewees are encouraged to interpret the images and to construct stories about their meaning.
The stories they tell serve as a mirror to reflect back to themselves their thoughts and feelings about the "other," both historically and now, as they experience the other today. How do we understand and change our feelings regarding the other in our history, in our private lives, and in our community?
Before we can overcome the divisions engendered by the perception of difference and otherness, we have to understand and accept how we make sense of how we perceive others and, at the same time, ourselves.
Further videos will include a number of interviews, discussions, and performance pieces that begin as meditations on specific images and that evolve to challenge the audience to reflect upon its own ways of seeing and interpreting the other.
Derek Burrows, August 2009
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