{"id":45189,"date":"2016-01-19T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45189"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:36:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:36:56","slug":"photographing-multiracial-families-in-scotland-celebrating-mothers-daughters-and-diversity-through-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45189","title":{"rendered":"Photographing Multiracial Families In Scotland: Celebrating mothers, daughters and diversity through portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photographing Multiracial Families In Scotland: Celebrating mothers, daughters and diversity through portraits<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Medium<\/a> for Pixel Magazine<\/a>
\n2015-12-17<\/p>\n

Interview by Emily von Hoffmann<\/a><\/strong> and Polarr<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nImage courtesy of Kim Simpson<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n

Portrait photographer Kim Simpson<\/a> began her Exottish<\/a><\/em> project after her daughter, who is of mixed heritage, experienced a series of racial insults in her primary school in Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kim says she hopes her portraits\u200a\u2014\u200awhich feature families with some \u201cvisual differences\u201d between their members\u200a\u2014\u200awill encourage viewers to revisit their engrained ideas of what it looks like to be Scottish.<\/p>\n

For Polarr, Emily von Hoffmann spoke with Kim about the work and her experience as a parent in a multiracial family.<\/p>\n

Emily von Hoffmann: \u201cGirls and Their Mothers\u201d is one part of the larger Exottish<\/em> project. What does \u201cGirls and Their Mothers\u201d entail? Who are these women?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kim Simpson<\/strong>: \u201cGirls and Their Mothers\u201d is a collection of portraits of mixed race girls, of all ages, with their mothers\u200a\u2014\u200a48 portraits featuring 16 different families in a mix of individual and group portraits.<\/p>\n

Instead of questioning their ancestry or scrutinizing their appearance, I chose to photograph girls and women of mixed heritage and their mothers with an intent to question social perception. These images display their relationships, linking these girls and their mothers together while at the same time respecting their disparity…<\/p>\n

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\nImage courtesy of Kim Simpson<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n

…EvH: What sort of national dialogue, or vocabulary even, around race and appearance exists in Scotland? Is it discussed in school, for instance? I\u2019m interested in thinking about this in comparison to the current Black Lives Matter movement<\/a> in the U.S., and the greater mainstream attention to identity issues of multiracial individuals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

KS<\/strong>: Black Lives Matter is extremely relevant in Scotland, especially at the moment. We have had an awful tragedy that saw the senseless end of Sheku Bayoh\u2019s<\/a> life at the hands of police officers as he was suffocated during an arrest in Fife<\/a>, Scotland. Justice has not been served in this instance and it echoes all the hallmarks of what has been going on across the water with concerns of interactions between police officers and members of the black community…<\/p>\n

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

Photographing Multiracial Families In Scotland: Celebrating mothers, daughters and diversity through portraits Medium for Pixel Magazine 2015-12-17 Interview by Emily von Hoffmann and Polarr Image courtesy of Kim Simpson. Portrait photographer Kim Simpson began her Exottish project after her daughter, who is of mixed heritage, experienced a series of racial insults in her primary school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,414,8,23674,10,25],"tags":[22675,22677,18537,147,22676,22674,153],"class_list":["post-45189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-family","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-uk","category-women","tag-emily-von-hoffmann","tag-kim-simpson","tag-medium","tag-photography","tag-pixel-magazine","tag-polarr","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45190,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45189\/revisions\/45190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}