{"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":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5652\" title=\"Sarah Race and Sarah Buchanan, authors of the Chosen Family Art Project\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/SarahRace_SarahBuchanan.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Race and Sarah Buchanan, authors of the Chosen Family Art Project\" width=\"445\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/SarahRace_SarahBuchanan.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/SarahRace_SarahBuchanan-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Sarah 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<p>\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<p>\u201cWe met at the Vancouver Pride Parade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5653\" title=\"Chosen Family Portraits #1 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Celebrate-Queer-Vancouver_SarahRace_pressphoto_no1.jpg\" alt=\"Chosen Family Portraits #1 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival\" width=\"396\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Celebrate-Queer-Vancouver_SarahRace_pressphoto_no1.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Celebrate-Queer-Vancouver_SarahRace_pressphoto_no1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Chosen Family Portraits #1 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5654\" title=\"Chosen Family Portraits #4 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Celebrate-Queer-Vancouver_SarahRace_pressphoto_no4.jpg\" alt=\"Chosen Family Portraits #4 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival\" width=\"396\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Celebrate-Queer-Vancouver_SarahRace_pressphoto_no4.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Celebrate-Queer-Vancouver_SarahRace_pressphoto_no4-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Chosen Family Portraits #4 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5655\" title=\"Chosen Family Portraits #5 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Celebrate-Queer-Vancouver_SarahRace_pressphoto_no5.jpg\" alt=\"Chosen Family Portraits #5 by Sarah Race. Press photo courtesy of Celebrate Queer Vancouver and Vancouver Queer Film Festival\" width=\"396\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Celebrate-Queer-Vancouver_SarahRace_pressphoto_no5.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Celebrate-Queer-Vancouver_SarahRace_pressphoto_no5-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>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":"<p>\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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22,23],"tags":[514,343],"class_list":["post-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-project","category-photography","category-queer-art","tag-sarah-buchanan","tag-sarah-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}