Voices of Race
Kathleen Dreier
Portrait/event photographer for business/community/family. Social change series: Voices of Race. "Photography Connecting Community."
Portrait of Andres Alexander Portela III sitting on the floor in his kitchen. Andres remodeled much of his home during the pandemic. Sitting in his kitchen brings him comfort and a place to focus his work efforts.
Voices of Race, a portrait series by Kathleen Dreier, is dedicated to amplifying the voices of our BIPOC communities and being a call of action to white people to be social change agents.
With Andrés Alexander Portela III, Ward 6 Tucson City Council Candidate:
“As African Americans, we are caught in this world which celebrates the culture but not the people.
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I want to dare to dream. I want to watch my nieces and nephews grow old and be come astronaut and paleontologists. I want the sun to rise and set and not have to worry about trauma. Trauma that has been shared from generation to generation, passed like songs we keep collecting and resurrecting day in and day out.
I want to laugh loud in public without being looked at as the loud and boisterous black guy. I want to walk downtown without purses being held tighter when I walked by. I want the privilege to just dream. To dream like white kids dream to walk on Mars, I want to feel that in my neighborhood. I want the belonging I feel with people who look like me, I want to feel that with everyone. I just want my dreams to stop being my dreams.”
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To the reader: Voices of Race is a long-term ongoing personal documentary photography project that evolved through several other series I created throughout the pandemic. I am inviting business owners, organizations and corporations to reach out to me for potential collaboration within your company to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion among your staff and colleagues.