Séan Alonzo Harris: The Space Between
Curated by Bruce Brown
Maya Williams
April 29, 2021 - June 26, 2021
About The Show
Through his photography, Séan Alonzo Harris tells untold stories, speaking for forgotten voices and capturing personal histories. This exhibition, curated by Bruce Brown, features a collection of street photography, urban landscapes, and studio portraits taken in Portland, Maine over the past five years, including during Harris’s residency at Indigo Arts Alliance.
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
My images bear witness to the often invisible or overlooked members of our communities. I create portraits as a means to confront and question cultural and racial assumptions, stereotypes and fears, and to provide a counter-image and counter-narrative of self-worth and personal agency.
The Space Between is a proclamation of radical inclusivity, an invitation to see differently and transform our images and perceptions of others. The photographic document serves to engage the critical issues of race and representation and to make visible the varied, full humanity and expansive beauty of black and brown people. - Séan Alonzo Harris
Nor is my invisibility exactly a matter of a biochemical accident to my epidermis. That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact. A matter of the construction of their inner eyes, those eyes with which they look through their physical eyes upon reality.
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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