We don’t need the state to promote diversity
I hope to use this blog to help present and explain my photographic documentary titled, “We don’t need the state to promote diversity.” This blog will become an ongoing addition to my project; questioning what a “Canadian” is; how blended our culture has become; and attempting to find people who have immigrated to Canada from every country in the world, to help tell their stories of why they choose to make Canada their home.
Within the project “We don’t need the State to Promote Diversity,” Canadian citizens, both young and old, are photographed representing ideas of Canadian identities and representations of their ethnic backgrounds, critiquing MP Jason Kenny’s recent quest to “tighten the definition of what it means to be Canadian.”
The subject’s portraits will display their choice in representing their ethnic background and a Canadian persona that they or any Canadian citizen can relate to. At this stage with my project I have used photographs of 26 subjects demonstrating the diverse backgrounds of people living within Canada. As the documentary photographer directing the project, I am enabling each participant to portray their own understanding of their cultural ethnicity. Overall, my project explores our multicultural society, which supports its citizens to embrace their Canadian and ethnic cultures, regardless of the pressures some government officials place on them to conform.
The project can be viewed on my website:
