our kind of people
A platform for challenging bias, promoting social equity, and fostering community.
Our Kind of People examines perception based on appearance and deconstructs how clothing, race, gender, and class signifiers affect our daily interactions and social systems. To do this, Our Kind of People uses images and stories created in collaboration with everyday people from across the globe.
Created by interdisciplinary artist and educator Bayeté Ross Smith, and co-produced with FOTODEMIC, Our Kind of People is an ongoing series of images, videos, and stories that create nuanced and sophisticated conversations and reflections about how identity affects our daily lives. This awareness and analysis will become a tool for challenging bias, facilitating education, and promoting social justice. These images and stories will engage audiences via social media and ongoing publications to our web platform ourkindofpeople.org, that will be accompanied by workshops, physical and virtual events, implicit social cognition tests, and analysis of this research. All of which will be tools to improve cultural competency and facilitate mutual understanding.
