We are a different kind of photography agency.

We engage in photography as a social practice, inviting participation and connection with communities to help them tell their own stories.

In short, we collaborate and create with a community rather than for an audience. This shifts power dynamics, making space for open dialogue and for new forms of a collective voice to emerge. We choose to take this approach in order to build community and enable social change.

Tiffany Fairey and Liz Orton, Photography as Dialogue, Photography and Culture Vol 12, Issue 3. Sept 2019

“To value dialogue is to value the space between people not as a sign of disconnection but as a potential for exchange, for movement in feeling, position or understanding, however small. This space between is where photographs find potential, as moments for connection, that open up histories, interpretations and futures.”

StoryBank is a place for our stories to live.

Stories are a wonderful connection point. It's through sharing them with each other that we build connections, expand our understanding and can make space for conversations that can inspire change.

We invite you to explore — to experience the images and words co-created with the courageous people who have chosen to share their stories here.

Marvin Heiferman

“Photographs don’t only show us things, they do things. They engage us optically, neurologically, intellectually, emotionally, viscerally, physically. They demand our scrutiny and interpretation. Photographs seduce and motivate us; they promote ideas, embed values and shape public opinion.”

How do we witness less and participate more?

and then: somewhere to head to and somewhere to come from. A point of connection, a point of continuation, and sometimes, a point to be continued.

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