We are our stories. We are the product of all the stories we have heard and lived….We live in stories the way fish live in water, breathing them in and out.
—Daniel Taylor, The Healing Power of Stories
An untold story isolates; it dehumanizes; it implies that a person or people are without value, that they should and will be forgotten. To be a character in a story is to realize inclusion and worth; this is the gift we as artists can give a population whose stories often go unread: the poor, the elderly, the terminally sick, the refugee—in short any liminal, ignored, or silenced citizenry.
VOX Continuum seeks to help the voiceless to rehumanize by becoming part of a told story. In the telling and retelling of their stories, it is our hope to uncover a genuine human story shared by all: a universal humanity, a chorus of voices and an increased sense of community amongst us all. It looks to do this through the art of photography.
This project looks to identify individuals in order to redeem them and their story first by listening to it; then capturing it in portraiture. Doing so we claim them into our story in a tangible, visceral, human-to-human and vital, life-affirming interaction. Their portrait given to them provides them an opportunity to succinctly propagate their story to a larger audience; their portrait in combination with others can be shown in a gallery setting—expanding the reach of these individual stories to broaden perpetually their rehumanization.
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