Artist iO Tillett Wright explains of her Self Evident Truths:
"I started this project last year as part of an exhibition called Manifest Equality. I shot as many people that felt like LGBTQ applied to them, that I could get to, and laid stacks of their portraits in the gallery for viewers to take home for free. The message was so simple, but I needed a broader spectrum of faces to really bring the point home. Now my goal is to take the project national, shooting 4,000-5,000 faces across the United States, hitting 25 cities in three big road trips. So far, HRC has made it possible for me to shoot 300 faces in New York City, as a starter run for the bigger project. Eventually we'll launch several large exhibitions, give away thousands of faces, make a book, and hopefully a documentary about people's stories along the way. This website will turn into an online portal where people who I can’t photograph in person, can upload pictures of themselves.If all goes well, people will submit their own photos, and we'll make something of a modern day AIDS quilt."
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