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Reframing Islam: A Photographic Resolution was initiated in early 2017 in response to political unrest regarding fear/acceptance of Muslim Americans. The method is simple: capture portraits of our Muslim neighbors and pair them with personal statements to ‘reframe’ the argument in context of humanity and self-representation. The intention is to replicate dialogue between humans, face-to-face. By allowing audiences to fully engage with intimate portraits of Muslim Americans and their heartfelt words, viewers are encouraged to suspend judgment and ‘listen’ without reservation. This resolution is about human rights as much as American rights; it’s about nurturing compassion and decency between Muslim and non-Muslim to remember the virtues of welcoming and celebrating our diversity. 
Our greatest hope is that audiences challenge their understandings of Islam, ask questions, reject xenophobia, and develop acceptance. Now, we are feverishly working on exhibiting the body of work across the state of Massachusetts to restore peace, love, and understanding between Muslim and non-Muslim communities across the state. 
This is only the beginning of our fervent efforts to collaborate with both public and private organizations and with the Muslim community across the state of Massachusetts to bring Muslim self-representation, public education, enlightenment, compassion, and appreciation of American diversity into the world we live in. 

 

A few highlights from our outreach thus far: 

  • September 3 -October 8, 2018- Reframing Islam: A Photographic Resolution | Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education | 75 Pleasant St, Malden, MA

 

  • July 9-August 10, 2018- Reframing Islam: A Photographic Resolution | Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, McCormack Building | One Ashburton Place, Boston, MA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • May 7, 2017:  Reframing Islam: A Photographic Resolution exhibited at the Worcester Islamic Center’sMeet Your Muslim Neighbor”! We met some wonderful Muslim and non-Muslim people, and exhibited the first printed photographs of the series!

 

  • April 29, 2017:  Al Hamra Academy invited us to discuss Reframing Islam, and make some breathtaking portraits of families in the Al Hamra Academy community; Special guest, State Representative Hannah Kane of Worcester, spoke about the importance of advocating for Muslim American rights and against the proposed “travel ban”.

 

 

  • February 26, 2017:  Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts rallies with neighbors to advocate against the Muslim Travel Ban. “Demonstrators told 22News they have been working closely with the Islamic society to help promote better understanding of Muslims here in the Pioneer Valley.”
    • Brittany Hathaway is front and center, practicing what we preach, holding the sign “Let’s Wage Peace, Love, AND Understanding!!”