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‘Typical American Families’ photo exhibit to be unveiled at Emory<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Emory News Center<\/a>
\nEmory University, Atlanta, Georgia
\n2015-05-04<\/p>\n

Kimber Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n“Typical American Families” highlights the many configurations that family life can take in America. Photos in the exhibit will be unveiled at a public reception at the Center for Ethics on May 7. Photo by Ross Oscar Knight<\/a>.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

“Typical American Families,” a new photographic exhibit that explores a wider view of American families, will be unveiled Thursday, May 7, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Emory Center for Ethics, 1531 Dickey Drive.<\/p>\n

Conceived by Carlton Mackey<\/a>, director of Emory’s Ethics and the Arts Program<\/a>, the exhibit offers a photographic glimpse into the lives of 15 Atlanta-area families, celebrating “the vast landscape of manifestations of family” across spectrums of culture, faith and ability, Mackey says.<\/p>\n

The event includes a public reception and formal unveiling of the exhibit. Guests will also have a chance to meet families that participated in the community project, which showcases the diversity of the American family through the lens of international photographer\/photoculturalist Ross Oscar Knight<\/a>, Mackey’s creative partner.<\/p>\n

The families \u2014 who haven’t yet seen their photographs \u2014 will share stories and insights into how they bridge faith, culture and difference in Atlanta<\/a>, Mackey says…<\/p>\n

…”Typical American Families” was inspired by Mackey’s ongoing work on “Beautiful in Every Shade<\/a>,” an empowerment campaign that celebrates the breadth and depth of beauty in every human being.<\/p>\n

That campaign grew out of\u00a0 “50 Shades of Black<\/a>,” a multi-media art project launched by Mackey in 2013 \u2014 and funded in part by a grant from Emory’s Center for Creativity & Arts \u2014 that explores the intersection of skin tone and sexuality in the shaping of identity through images and personal narrative…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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