{"id":5651,"date":"2011-08-05T05:13:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T05:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2016-10-09T13:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T11:16:28","slug":"chosen-family-portraits-in-vancouver-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/chosen-family-portraits-in-vancouver-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen Family Portraits In Vancouver, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sarah
\nSarah Race and Sarah Buchanan, authors of the Chosen Family Portraits\u00a0Art Project. Photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Chosen Family Portraits\u2019 is a community-based art queer project commissioned during last years Vancouver Queer Film Festival with Artists-in-Residence Sarah Race and Sarah Buchanan. The Vancouver art project runs through August 21 2011 \u2013 as a series of lamp-post installations that include a \u2018Chosen Family Portrait\u2019 image and personal quote from the featured family\u2019s testimonial. Queer photographer Sara Race [above]\u00a0made the\u00a0portraits and Sarah Buchanan [above]\u00a0has recorded interviews with the participants of this art project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met at the Vancouver Pride Parade.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Chosen<\/p>\n

Chosen Family Portraits #1 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe distinction between the chosen family and the family you\u2019re born with is a very significant difference, and has to be expressed more to the public. The way your family tree looks depends so much on the culture that you\u2019re modeling it after.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Chosen<\/p>\n

Chosen Family Portraits #4 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from Trinidad originally; we talk about family as in blood family mostly. That concept of chosen family I had to wrap my head around. And, meeting her\u2026 chosen family is almost not the right term, she feels like blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Chosen<\/p>\n

Chosen Family Portraits #5 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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