SxSW – The Self-Portrait Project

South to South by Southwest Self-Portraits

From March 13-25, 2011, the Self-Portrait Project travelled throughout the South — eventually ending up at Austin, Texas’ South by Southwest Festival — with the intention of making the project and its mission of empowering people in the creation of their own images available to individuals outside of New York City. The cities stopped at along the way:

Richmond, VA
Asheville, NC
Memphis, TN
Austin, TX
New Orleans, LA
Atlanta, GA
Carrboro, NC
Washington, DC

What is presented within these pages are just a few of the many hundreds of Self-Portraits taken on the trip.South to South by Southwest Self-Portraits

From March 13-25, 2011, the Self-Portrait Project travelled throughout the South — eventually ending up at Austin, Texas’ South by Southwest Festival — with the intention of making the project and its mission of empowering people in the creation of their own images available to individuals outside of New York City. The cities stopped at along the way:

Kickstarter pitch video for the trip. The project campaign up raising $3131 from 71 backers.

Continue until you see yourself in the cruelest person on Earth, in the child starving, in the political prisoner. Practice until you recognize yourself in everyone in the supermarket, on the street corner, in a concentration camp, on a leaf, in a dewdrop. Meditate until you see yourself in a speck of dust in a distant galaxy. See and listen with the whole of your being. If you are fully present, the rain of the Dharma will water the deepest seeds in your store consciousness, and tomorrow, while you are washing the dishes or looking at the blue sky, that seed will spring forth, and love and understanding will appear as a beautiful flower.

– Thich Nhat Hanh, Teachings on Love

The Self-Portrait Project is a project of 501(c)3 fiscal sponsor Fractured Atlas